Page 5169 - Week 13 - Thursday, 29 November 2018
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Amendment negatived.
Clause 144 agreed to.
Clauses 145 and 146, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Clause 147.
MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (8.11): Again this relates to amendments Nos 51 through to 58, to section 205. Whilst we support amendment No 41, we will not be moving it, given that the government have already indicated their unwillingness to support amendment No 58.
Clause 147 agreed to.
Clauses 148 to 157, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Clause 158.
MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (8.12): This is also consequential to section 205. For the record, I support all the amendments I have circulated, but I do not intend to move amendments Nos 42, 43 or 44 as they all relate to section 205.
Clause 158 agreed to.
Clause 159 agreed to.
Clauses 160 to 166, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Clause 167 agreed to.
Clauses 168 to 183, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Clause 184.
MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (8.14): I move amendment No 45 circulated in my name, which omits clause 184 [see schedule 1 at page 5203]. The opposition is firmly of the view that if the commission comes to a finding that someone or something is corrupt, they should not be prohibited from reporting it as such. Clause 184 states that the commission must not include in an investigation report a finding that a stated person has engaged in, is engaging in or is about to engage in corrupt conduct unless the corrupt conduct is serious corrupt conduct or systemic corrupt conduct. So we are going to have an integrity commission that is meant to investigate corruption, and they can find someone corrupt but they are not meant to do anything about it. It is just crazy.
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