Josh Wilson (Fremantle, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, as some appropriately refer to it as, the federal Administrative Review Tribunal. They might not linger over the remote control all that long. But it is an important thing, and we aren't just going to focus our work as a Labor government on the flashy things, on the things that catch people's attention. We are doing work and making reform in dozens and dozens and dozens of areas. We're doing it in big areas like energy and climate. We're doing it, of course, with a laser-like and enduring focus, in cost-of-living pressures, both in the immediate-term and for the longer-term benefit of the Australian community, as the Treasurer said today. But we're also going to focus on some areas of chronic neglect and dysfunction like this one so that, as we strengthen and improve the NDIS, it will still be the case that, if through that strengthened, improved and more sustainable agency a person gets a determination that, in their view, isn't right, they will be able to go and challenge that determination. As we improve the circumstances for people who rely on income support by making changes so that single parents get significantly more support than they did previously, if, for some reason, there's an issue with their circumstances, they can go and challenge that through the new Administrative Review Tribunal.

We are leaving no stone unturned. We take our responsibility to the Australian people very, very seriously. We know that they've been let down. We know that tens of thousands of people were harmed—in some cases grievously harmed—by the robodebt fiasco, which is exactly the kind of thing that happens when you let the institutional bedrock of our system crumble into dust. When you trample it underfoot, when you basically see it as the parade ground for your own vanities, that causes enormous harm, and we aren't going to stand idly by and allow that to remain the case. We are going to step into every significant area of government administration and make it work for the Australian people, make it fairer, make it higher quality, make it more transparent and make it more timely—all the things that Australians have a right to expect. That is what we are going to do in their service as the Albanese Labor government.

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