Senate debates
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Questions without Notice
Commonwealth Integrity Commission
2:35 pm
Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source
the enormous contribution that Senator Fierravanti-Wells makes, on behalf of New South Wales, to our party and to our government in particular, and she has done so through a wide range of different roles. But I know, as well, that the model for an integrity commission we have developed is a sound model—a model that strikes the balance of ensuring that we would have an integrity commission focused on rooting out corruption, and on prosecuting where applicable, but not on show trials. I know those opposite just want show trials; they just want politics. We actually want effective reform.
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