Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I have had the opportunity to scan Ms Higgins's remarks, and there is a range of those statements that she has made today with which I agree and, in fact, there are concerns she has raised over recent weeks with which I also agree. It's one of the reasons the government has worked closely with those opposite—indeed, with those around this chamber—in support of the development of an independent review of this workplace, its cultures, its unique qualities, to specifically and directly address these issues. We do take this very, very seriously. We have heard those concerns, and my own personal remarks, which I am very happy to repeat in this chamber, are that we as parliamentarians—all of us—must own these problems. We must own the failings that have enabled these events to occur and we must own the solutions. (Time expired)