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

JobKeeper, JobSeeker—ensuring that all of these things went to saving Australian jobs. Why would we do that? Because it seemed to us that that was completely the right set of priorities during this pandemic.

What I would also note for the member for Sydney is that the work on the Integrity Commission, as I described yesterday, is actually already underway in this budget—in this budget—with the allocation of very substantial increases in funding to the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, which will increase its ASL by 38 staff members so that it can be the first part of this Integrity Commission, which has to be designed carefully. When you are looking at something like examinations for tertiary students, that does not involve something as delicate and as important as the extent to which, if any, you have retrospectivity applying around the criminal law of the Commonwealth of Australia to activities that occurred before and to different standards. (Time expired)

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