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

With all due respect, Minister, we are in the committee stage of your bill, so encouraging people to go and read documents is actually not appropriate. It is appropriate, if you have the answers, to provide them here and now.

Again I am just going to confirm what you have stated. Will there be a prerequisite similar to a fit-and-proper-person test that applies in other types of appointments? You have stated that I should refer to the design principles. We're going to get to the design principles and we're going to go through them in detail. But your answer to that is: that is actually a matter for the parliament to decide in due course. We don't have the numbers, so it's actually not going to be up to us. It's actually going to be up to you with the Australian Greens. If you determine that you don't want a fit-and-proper-person test, that's actually what's going to happen. So that again is going to be up to the parliament; is that correct?