Nita Green (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Cash, I referred to the Senate's usual processes in requesting information. You are fully aware of those. You've been here for a long time. I'm not going to elaborate on those. As I've said, this bill is about making sure that the community expectation of public officials to perform their duties with the highest integrity, particularly those who operate at the highest level in heading up statutory authorities—that they are held to that highest level of account. This bill ensures that arrangements for statutory office holders set in the legislation underpinning these entities, which has not been updated in many years and so have limited provisions of an accountability where conduct or performance is unacceptable—it ensures that those measures are updated.