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

The bill makes for very, very limited changes on the kind of revolving door going from a security agency into the position of inspector-general. Recommendation 4 of the PJCIS was that the Australian government consider amendments to this bill to prescribe that a person would be ineligible for appointment to the role of inspector-general for an appropriate period of time, to be determined by the government following employment in an intelligence agency. In the view of the government, what is such an appropriate period of time?