Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Certainly there has been assessment of resourcing for this role that will be provided. The government will, of course, make sure that those resources are available for the commissioner to do their work and adequately resource them to do their work. That goes without saying.

In terms of the broader recommendations in Bringing them homeI'm not trying to shift responsibility here—there is work that is done across states and territories.

They do have responsibility for the child protection systems. The Commonwealth doesn't run those. But we want to work with them. We want to ensure that the commissioner's role is effective and that they are able to focus on the issues that First Nations people have raised—