Peter Khalil (Wills, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Riverina might not want me to be heard, and those opposite might not want to hear it, but, through failure after failure, they have mismanaged the AAT. People have had such adverse impacts that they've waited years for decisions, because they were incorrectly determined and they were undercooked decisions, and they've had lengthy and expensive judicial processes because of their mismanagement. That is what they don't want to hear about, but we'll keep saying it because it's true.

There is a human impact to what they have done in their mismanagement, and that is the thousands of people affected. I know this, and I'm sure others know this as well, because the hardworking staff in our electorate offices are the ones who have to help those people who've gone through lengthy and nightmarish bureaucratic processes. Tens of thousands of people who relied on the AAT to independently review government decisions have had life-altering impacts because of their mismanagement. We're cleaning up this mess and cleaning up the legacy of mismanagement by the coalition. We're cleaning up the legacy of irresponsibility and the legacy of deep suffering for migrants and refugees, particularly, who sought to call Australia home. That's why it's incumbent upon us to actually deliver these reforms, and that's why we're going to pass them through the House.

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