Commonwealth Entities Legislation Amendment Bill 2026

Senator GREEN (Queensland—Assistant Minister for Tourism, Assistant Minister for Pacific Island Affairs and Assistant Minister for Northern Australia) (13:25): I reject that categorisation. I may well ask why the opposition is choosing a culture of opposition for opposition's sake—opposition to sensible reforms that seek to ensure there is integrity, honesty and accountability in core Commonwealth government entities, and, in doing so, ensure that, as in the APS Code of Conduct, things like discrimination, bullying and harassment, and corruption and those types of behaviours, are unacceptable and not allowed in these four Commonwealth entities that we seek to modernise today.

That's what we are seeking to do, as government. You characterise it in a different way. You're choosing to oppose this bill.

We won't agree on the purpose. You seem to misconstrue the purpose—perhaps because it's not understood that it's against a backdrop of other work that we've been doing to reform the Public Service. I think your question says more about your approach than ours.