Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you for that confidence in me, Senator Tyrrell, but can I just give you some of the examples of what this government has done to build the trust of the Australian people? I probably should note that, at the last election, Labor significantly increased the number of representatives in the parliament, which I take as a sign that the Australian people do trust us. Why is that? Well, let me go through some of the things we have done. We've established a National Anti-Corruption Commission. We have strengthened the ministerial code of conduct. We have strengthened protections for whistleblowers. All of these things were done in the Attorney-General's portfolio.

We've increased the funding of the ANAO. For instance, one of their inquiries was into PEMS. I don't know if you recall the PEMS, but it was a system set up by the other side and completely failed to do what it was supposed to do. We restored transparency at the AAT appointments and established the ART. We reinstated a standalone privacy and FOI commissioner. We implemented the recommendations of the Bell inquiry into Morrison's multiministries. Is there anything that we haven't done to restore— (Time expired)