QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator GALLAGHER (Australian Capital Territory—Minister for Finance, Minister for the Public Service, Minister for Women, Minister for Government Services and Manager of Government Business in the Senate) (14:31): I would expect the TPB, with which you have had extensive dealings, Senator Pocock, would manage any perceived or potential conflict of interest, as is appropriate and as we would expect any public authority—in fact any executive team—to manage.

I would expect that the Tax Practitioners Board does exactly that. In relation to KPMG and the action that we have taken, we have a review underway that has been headed up by Dr Ian Watt, who is going to undertake that review to look across government at the contracts that exist with KPMG. We are extremely concerned and disturbed by what we have read around the whistleblower's allegations and indeed the admissions by KPMG.

And I thought Senator O'Neill's committee, which sat late Friday a week ago, was very enlightening as to some of the behaviour that's been undertaken, and we will be looking closely at that and the review, when it comes in. The PRESIDENT: Senator Pocock, second supplementary?