Russell Broadbent (McMillan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Leichhardt thinks it should be in Cairns. What would happen is that there would be a bipartisan compromise, and the federal ICAC, with probably 50 employees by now—because you need some backup, you need IT people and you need investigators—could do the investigation in Darwin and then they could have the headquarters in Cairns. They could fly all of their families with them because there has to be family leave. This is absurd.

I'd like to appeal to the Australian people to not to be blindsided. By their calls for a federal anticorruption body, they're really suggesting to you that people like myself and the other members of this parliament are corrupt. I can tell you, we're not. Mr Richard Mulgan's case for a federal ICAC is very flimsy. There's actually not a place for a federal ICAC here. Do you know what I think is going to happen?

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