Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I thought I was being exceptionally helpful by providing all of the information, and I completely reject your categorisation of my answers as not answering your question. There are provisions in the bill as to how appointments will be made. There's a skills matrix. There will be a selection process done by the department—not by the minister. Names will come up to the minister, and a final process will be taken to select the best possible board members to run what is a very ambitious National Reconstruction Fund in this country. I don't think there's anything in all of that which is inconsistent with past practices in terms of significant boards and appointments of these types of boards. More particularly, I don't think I could be any clearer about how that process is going to work.