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

I don't agree with that at all. I don't agree with that assessment of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, and I don't agree with that in terms of assessment about integrity measures that we are putting in place across the Australian Public Service. We have made amendments to the Public Service Act to improve integrity and transparency since coming to government. Those amendments have passed this place, with the support of senators. We have sought to strengthen the independence of the Public Service. We have resourced the Public Service appropriately so that it is able to do the job that we ask it to do, because the quality of the delivery of work through the Public Service matters. If they don't have enough workers to do the work, we rely on contractors and others to do that. I think concerns have been raised about the quality of the delivery of public service. We've put a range of integrity measures around procurement processes across the APS as well, and there is more to do.