George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The government's view is that we have strong laws in relation to corruption which are enforced by a skilful and honourable Australian Federal Police as well as state and territory police agencies. There has not been any indication of a culture of corruption in Australian public administration. There has not. In fact, the instances where in either political life or in Australian public administration there have been instances of corruption are notably rare. The same cannot be said of all state governments and all state public administration but it can be said, and I think we should be very proud of this, of the Commonwealth.

Senator Wang, the point at which you began identifies one area of Australian public life where there has been an identified and well-demonstrated culture of corruption, and that is the union movement— (Time expired)