Derryn Hinch (Victoria, Derryn Hinch's Justice Party) Share this | Hansard source

I think Senator Di Natale's motion here is insulting to a genuine Senate committee. The Select Committee on a National Integrity Commission has had public hearings all the over the country. We have been and talked to the CCC in Queensland—I'm a member of that committee—we've talked to IBAC in Melbourne, we've talked to ICAC in private meetings in Sydney and we've also talked to the AFP here in Canberra. To bring on this motion now makes all the work we have done, with the reporting date coming up, superfluous. I'm not opposed to a national ICAC. I agree with some of Senator Di Natale's sentiments, but I think this is premature and I will be opposing it.