Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

ator WATT (—) (): Thank you, Senator Lambie. Again, I have confidence in Major General Brereton not just as a distinguished figured within the military but also as a very experienced lawyer that he will follow all obligations he has in terms of conflicts of interest, as would any member of the national corruption commission, once it gets up and running. I'm not particularly familiar with the report that you're talking about, being the representing minister, but I have full confidence that Major General Brereton will do the right thing in considering any possible conflict of interest that he might have.

We take the role of the new national corruption commission extremely seriously. It's long overdue. It should have been up and running years ago. The former government committed to introducing one and never got around to it. Senator Cash was the Attorney-General for much of that period and failed to progress that. I'm very pleased that we will have a corruption commission and— (Time expired)