Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Omnibus No. 1) Bill 2026

Senator GREEN (Queensland—Assistant Minister for Tourism, Assistant Minister for Pacific Island Affairs and Assistant Minister for Northern Australia) (18:44): I'm not trying to be obstructive—I think the Caravonica State School fete probably got the best of me on Saturday—I'm trying to answer your questions in the most succinct way. A conflict would end in a number of ways.

I'm sure that you're aware of how they arise. How they would end would be a proceeding would finish, or a particular issue around a conflict would end, if the term of the director ended. There are a number of ways.

I think it's not really for me to hypothesise about that, other than to say the conflict would end when the conflict ceases. That seems like a bit of a circular way of putting it, but that is how the act envisions dealing with this. This is how conflicts are dealt with across a number of acts, through a number of agencies, and they are similar ways to the ways they are dealt with in corporate and legal life.

We would make the point that, again, this doesn't change the fact that there's a method of managing conflicts; it just changes the way that they're managed.