Fatima Payman (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. The Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act, governing the financial resource management of government departments, has no provision to impose civil or criminal penalties. In 2024, the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit tabled an inquiry report and found:

NDIA officials failed to disclose years of secret gifts and hospitality received from global IT giant Salesforce despite the company securing lucrative government contracts and massive variations.

Minister, will the government commit to closing this corrupt loophole—affecting approximately $80 billion of taxpayer money spent each year on government tenders—by amending the PGPA Act to implement civil or criminal penalties for breaches of this act?