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

I can certainly tell Senator Farrell and the Senate, as is publicly known, that the Liberal Party has taken action at a national level over the last couple of years in terms of the application of new codes of conduct that have been extensively developed and applied by our national party. This is obviously in addition to and separate from the types of processes that I referred to in relation to parliamentary staff and the operation of the Department of Finance in that regard.

We also at the last election, I note, welcomed the fact that seven of the 14 new Liberal members of parliament elected to our ranks were women. Our cabinet, with six women, including Senator Reynolds, makes sure that our government has a very strong, very firm focus on being as inclusive as possible of all Australians in how we consider and assess policy, how we engage across our country and, indeed, how we engage with one another.