Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

The minister has not been able to give us any cogent arguments for dropping off those levels of expertise, but I wonder if he can answer the question which was not able to be answered satisfactorily in the inquiry. Why do we now have a new category of expertise? We have dropped off trade union, social welfare and environmental expertise and an eminent scientist. Instead, we have a new category of person who has expertise in ethics relating to research involving humans. Can the minister explain why this was a new category and why this needs to be identified in a specific way, whereas those other areas were removed?