Barbara Pocock (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That—

(a) the Senate notes that:

(i) in accordance with Senate resolution 44, government responses to parliamentary committee reports are required to be tabled within 3 months of a report being tabled,

(ii) the Finance and Public Administration References Committee tabled its report entitled Management and assurance of integrity by consulting services on 12 June 2024,

(iii) a government response has not been tabled even though it was due by 12 September 2024,

(iv) the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services tabled its report entitled Ethics and professional accountability: Structural challenges in the audit, assurance and consultancy industry on 7 November 2024, and

(v) a government response has not been tabled even though it was due by 7 February 2025;

(b) there be laid on the table by the Minister for Finance and Minister for the Public Service, by no later than midday on 15 December 2025, the outstanding government response to the report of the Finance and Public Administration References Committee entitled Management and assurance of integrity by consulting services; and

(c) there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Assistant Treasurer, by no later than midday on 15 December 2025, the outstanding government response to the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services entitled Ethics and professional accountability: Structural challenges in the audit, assurance and consultancy industry.

Question agreed to.