Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Kooyong for her question. I do recognise the member's advocacy for more transparency in government, and, after nine years of Liberal government, more transparency has been desperately needed. The Albanese government is committed to upholding a high standard of integrity, transparency and accountability—a standard that the former government never aspired to let alone achieved.

Within months of coming to office, we've established the National Anti-Corruption Commission—the single biggest reform to the Commonwealth integrity framework in decades. The Prime Minister and this government have exposed the shame of the former prime minister's secret ministries. That's the secrecy, of course, that the former government sunk to. It's an episode that damaged good government, damaged the parliament and damaged our democracy.

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