Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

We have been through this a number of times and the reality is that we have taken time and care. A draft is well advanced. That will go out to public consultation. Of course, it was the case that members opposite said that when they came into government they would take 12 full months of consultation before presenting a draft. We'll do it well within that time. It's also the case that in matters of this type you must be very careful to ensure that you get it absolutely, utterly and precisely correct, which is what we will be doing.

To be fair to the crossbench, they have brought in two models for an integrity commission. They brought in one in the previous parliament. That was sensibly voted against by the Labor Party, that particular model. I say respectfully that that model was not the correct model. We will make sure that the model that is presented is the correct model. What is very interesting, though, is that another bill was introduced in the Senate by the Greens—basically, precisely the same model that was introduced in the previous parliament. Interestingly, this time Labor voted for it—against that model in the last parliament; for the model in this parliament in the Senate. It couldn't possibly be, Leader of the Opposition, that you were having a few integrity issues at the time? It couldn't possibly be that. It couldn't possibly be the case that, just as you have flip-flopped on border protection, just as you flip-flop on all other issues, just as you flip-flop on taxation—

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