Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I completely disagree with what Senator Waters has just quoted. The government's model which we have put forward builds on the already strong anticorruption arrangements which exist at the Commonwealth level. The body that we've put forward would be a specialised investigation body for the most serious forms of corruption, with the resources and powers necessary to fulfil that role.

At the same time, for some reason, the Australian Greens don't seem to agree with this. The body will have appropriate safeguards, Senator Waters, to protect the rights and reputations of the people it investigates, and will also have robust oversight through an independent inspector-general and a dedicated parliamentary committee. The telling words from everything that you have said, Senator Waters, are 'spanish inquisition'.