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

The transition taskforce has quite a different job to the aged-care taskforce. The reason for nondisclosure there, Senator Ruston, as you would understand, was it was considering widescale reform of the aged-care system and so there needed to be put in place some element of confidentiality as people worked through some of what that looked like. They did, as I understand it, issue communiques out of that meeting.

The transition taskforce is a different arrangement, in which the reforms are settled—or they will be once we pass the bill—and will be working across the sector about issues that are arising as we work towards their implementation. There are no nondisclosure arrangements in place. It is a very collaborative arrangement. I leave it to the transition taskforce as to how they would like to update those interested about the work they're doing, but I would expect there to be some level of communication about issues that are arising and things like that. Again, I'm not the minister responsible and I don't want to tell the transition taskforce how to do their work before they've even met, but the fact that you've raised it indicates a level of interest in the work that it's going to be undertaking.