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

Is it really arbitrary when somebody goes from being in charge of an intelligence agency one day and then a month later finds themselves as the independent inspector appointed by the government? That's not arbitrary. That's a genuine conflict of interest where, potentially, they're marking their own homework. What is the actual constraint? What's the extent of the constraint? Or is the government comfortable with somebody being appointed to the role of IGIS and then literally marking their own homework, the work that they did as a former head of an intelligence agency? Are you comfortable with that?