Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Another recommendation by the Law Council of Australia was that the administrative appeals (judicial review) act be applied to all aspects of the National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill. As you would be aware, the bill currently has significant carveouts with part 6 on investigations and part 7 on hearings. They were excluded. Again, this was a recommendation from the Law Council: why doesn't the government want people brought before the National Anti-Corruption Commission? I know in the second reading speech that I presented to the Senate yesterday, it's not just obviously about a small group of people being parliamentarians; it does go to an estimated one million people who could possibly be brought within the remit of the National Anti-Corruption Commission. So it's the concern in relation to people being brought before the National Anti-Corruption Commission having that access to judicial review and I think in the examples that we gave yesterday—Comcar drivers, cleaners in Parliament House et cetera—to have access to judicial review as they would in relation to most other decisions of Commonwealth departments.