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

I thank the member for his question. The debate around the integrity commission, as evidenced by that question, should be—but never is when the opposition is involved—dealing with facts. They just cannot bring themselves to deal with actual facts, not even in talking about something as important as an integrity commission. The question goes to the time line of the government's development and consultation for an integrity commission, and I can explain that time line for the House.

The first time that this really became an issue was when members opposite were previously in government. The opposition's previous position was stated by the shadow Attorney-General when they were last in government. That was, in his words, 'I am not convinced that there is a need for yet another integrity officer.' That statement can be found in an article entitled 'Expenses critic Mark Dreyfus embarrassed over taxpayers ski trip to—

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