David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

If the government genuinely didn't want to constrain the NACC's ability to hold public hearings, then why did they move away from its election commitment to simply have a test based on the public interest, which works so well in jurisdictions like the New South Wales ICAC. Why did the government move away from that election commitment and insert the additional threshold of 'exceptional circumstances'? What was wrong with the public interest test that you took to the election?