Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I have said, Safe Work Australia will be prescribed and it is prescribed by regulations, so it is not in the primary legislation. The regulations prescribe that this agency will be under Safe Work Australia. Unless I am better advised, that will be the finance minister’s responsibility. The Department of Finance and Deregulation would regulate to prescribe Safe Work Australia as an FMA agency. My advisers are nodding, so it seems as though that is how it works.