Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, absolutely. The Attorney-General is a skilled officer in terms of his application as Attorney-General. He has worked, in terms of the development of the Commonwealth Integrity Commission—as we yesterday outlined clearly to this chamber—in developing the draft legislation for it, giving detailed consideration to it and seeking to make sure that, in designing that Commonwealth Integrity Commission, we clearly have, in path to legislation, an integrity commission that provides clearly for building upon the various aspects of scrutiny and function right across government at present, ensuring that they operate in a more integrated and effective way, and delivering the appropriate type of oversight to them and additional functions to integrity across government.