Julian Leeser (Berowra, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

The coalition supports the government's amendments here. We thank the government for these amendments. Many of the amendments deal with matters that were part of the joint select committee recommendations; in fact they implement the recommendations from the joint select committee. Many of those matters were things that the coalition has been particularly pushing for, including the deletion of clause 8(1)(e) from the definition of corruption and providing an exemption from gag orders for medical professionals and psychologists. That doesn't go quite as far as we would like, and we've got amendments that I'll speak to later. We're also pleased to see that a person subject to an inquiry will be advised of the outcome and to see an expansion of the powers of the inspector. We think that these are all good amendments, and the other amendments are of a technical nature, which we also support.

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