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

I would like to thank the minister and Senator Cash for their contributions. Of course, the bill is the National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill. Its purpose is to establish a commission. It's hopeful that that commission will fight corruption and put in place education measures and—hopefully, if they can ever overcome the test of exceptional circumstances—expose any existing corruption to the full glare of public review to provide that ultimate discouragement from corruption. So, given that the bill is to create a national anticorruption commission—in fact the bill is a national anticorruption commission bill and not a national anticorruption measure—I cannot understand, Minister, why you can't see that one of the core objects should be to establish an independent national anticorruption commission? I can tell you now that the people of Australia want to see this. They don't just want some amorphous anticorruption measure. They want us to establish—unambiguously, in black and white—an independent national anticorruption commission Why won't you accept that as one of the key objects?