Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Well, the Greens are objecting to that, and you can have a crack at the independence of the NACC's commissioner, who has the discretion to decide this. It's your right to impugn the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, if that's what the Greens political party wants to do, but I've already said in this debate that they retain the discretion to hold those public hearings at a future point if the commissioner decides that it's in the public interest to do so and exceptional circumstances justify doing so.