Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I will—and we're doing it exactly the same way that you did it when you announced your 2016 changes. There are a couple of areas that we need to consult upon further, which we will do. Because of the nature of defined benefits, they will be included in the scheme, and we announced that when we announced the measure. Our announcement accounted for that. It was clear, in the announcement by the Treasurer, that we would consult with the sector, which is the same process—because I remember it—as when you introduced it in your 2016-17 changes, which of course went much further than the changes that we are talking about today. We expect that the changes will definitely cover defined benefit schemes, and there are a couple of areas that we are going to consult on and that we want some industry advice on. As people know, the defined benefit schemes work differently to accumulation schemes, and they are complex. So there are some further consultations we would like to do, as the Morrison government did back in 2016-17.