Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

We've just seen Labor and Liberal get together and deny a motion that would allow an independent audit of all members of parliament, and now we see Labor and Liberal get together and refuse to establish a national anticorruption watchdog. Remarkable! We know that anticorruption watchdogs at a state level have uncovered serious corruption and serious wrongdoing and have led to prosecutions. The idea that somehow the federal parliament is immune to corruption is laughable. No wonder people have lost faith in their elected representatives. No wonder they have lost faith in the Labor and Liberal parties. The best disinfectant is sunlight. What we need to do is to make sure we have a strong and robust national body to ensure that not just politicians but figures right across the community—business, the finance industry and so on—have a body able to prosecute— (Time expired)