Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I think your advisor was nodding and I think they understood where I was coming from. I am not linking the new sanctions. With the reporting that is going on, it was implied in a departmental paper—and I do not have that with me—that there could be sanctions specifically resulting from the reporting to the department of a person going missing once the department investigates. My question therefore is: are the sanctions that are likely to be applied going to be new ones under the new principles, or will they merely be for when a breach occurs as a result of a person going missing—in other words, due to poor performance or whatever? That is what I am seeking clarification on.