Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee (part 2 of 3)
10 February 2026
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Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:21
Speaker 50
A requirement for service providers to to, quote, act in the public interest amongst a few other small but very sensible changes. Do you think your response, I I think which is so woeful, is encouraging to Australians who wanna see really significant systemic reform after the PWC tax lex scandal.
00:23 - 01:47
Speaker 1
Well, if I look at, yes, I agree that we have a responsibility. We have an opportunity as the whole of government, you know, custodian, essentially, of the rules around use of consultants and contractors. And I think, you know, the change... The... A lot of change has happened, to arrangements around, you know, with the supplier code of conduct, with some of the monitoring that goes on, with the changes to the procurement rules that finance has been leading on.
You know, we we keep this under a watching brief about other things. I mean, there were some recommendations in that report that we didn't agree to, like I think there was one that the parliament... I'm trying to re... Recall what it was now, but it was essentially one that I don't think could have worked. That the parliament essentially had a...
Would have a role over, you know, some consultancy or contracting arrangements, which ministers do not have response... You know, it's very clear under our arrangements that, engagement with yeah. That... Yeah. Recommendation 11 recommends that the parliament legislate to establish a joint standing committee to re...
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