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

Unfortunately, that wasn't the question I asked. The question I asked was what safeguards exist in the bill to prevent performance standards being set or amended retrospectively or shifted midterm to engineer a finding of unsatisfactory performance? You have now given evidence to the Senate that there is nothing in this bill that stops the performance standards, the secret performance standards, that the Australian public and the houses of parliament are never going to see. You've got all that on the record. That's what the bill is all about: taking away the transparency and ensuring that the minister holds all the power. What safeguards are in the bill to prevent the performance standards being set or amended retrospectively or shifted midterm to engineer a finding of unsatisfactory performance?