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

To be clear: is it the government's position that somebody has to have another substantive appointment or employment between the two before they can step out of a senior role in one of the intelligence agencies to take the inspector-general role? There's no temporal limit but there's some kind of other restriction? Minister, literally, I'm just trying to understand what the government's view of its own legislation is.