Rex Patrick (SA, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source

Clearly, the committee stage of the bill is where we are supposed to tease out all of the issues, rather than at estimates, where we might in future look at the operations of the bill. But, in order to be able to inform the Senate properly, once again, I'm very surprised that the government hasn't provided these sorts of details to the Senate.

In the operation of the fund, there is a board. I presume there will be a Commonwealth member on the board. Perhaps you could answer that and provide any advice as to whether there will be any other Commonwealth employees involved in the operation of the fund other than the board members.