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

The government is indeed grateful for the cooperation of many in relation to the conduct of this inquiry. We have responded in relation to this inquiry by establishing the Office of the Special Investigator to handle matters that relate to potential criminal conduct, to investigate those and to ensure that proper judicial processes, including presumption of innocence, are followed quite appropriately.

Equally, we have put in place an implementation oversight panel to review Defence's response to the recommendations in the report and to ensure that in doing so there is, again, appropriate accountability to the leaders of the Australian Defence Force as they respond to this report.