Marielle Smith (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Can you just step back to the history of when we signed up to this framework? I appreciate you said MPs had been informed of their responsibility under it but is there anything you could share in the time line of when the Australian government signed up to the framework and when MPs were informed, how they were informed? Is there anything you can share with us on those obligations? Can you also confirm that they apply not just to MPs interacting with the tobacco industry but also to people within our community or participants who might be participating in the democratic process, including through things like being witnesses on Senate committees, providing evidence to Senate committees, people who might be making other forms of submission that find their way into the public domain or indeed into the domain of the work of the Senate. My understanding is that those conventions don't just apply to members of parliament but also to those who we interact with in the course of our work as parliamentarians.