Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

As I announced in February, we did say that we would bring forward this office of the commissioner, which would have the powers of a royal commission, and we would establish an interim commissioner. As I've said, the Attorney-General currently has a short list of applicants for that interim process. But I would also note that we did say that we would appoint a Veteran Family Advocate, and, in fact, we have done so, with an outstanding person, Ms Gwen Cherne, being appointed by the Governor-General as the Veteran Family Advocate. We have actually implemented that, and we will shortly be announcing the interim commissioner.

We are delivering on exactly what we promised to deliver. We have the legislation in train, we have in train the appointment of the interim commissioner, and we have appointed an outstanding Veteran Family Advocate. This government is delivering exactly what we said we would, Senator Lambie.