Referencing the work of her predecessor, the late Peta Murphy, the member for Dunkley backs recommendation of 2023 report that found Australians lose $25bn a year to betting. Follow latest updates
At the Senate Estimates spillover session last night, senators grilled home affairs secretary, Stephanie Foster, about reports that the government was concerned that in February she tabled a document detailing the criminal record of people released as a result of the high court’s NZYQ decision.
Foster said:
The [home affairs] minister [Clare O’Neil] and I will always discuss the Estimates process in a routine way. The reports that the minister verbally abused me are absolutely baseless. I would like to echo comments made by the ministers, that my relationship with both [O’Neil and immigration minister Andrew Giles] is very close, very constructive … At no point, on that occasion, or ever, has minister O’Neil verbally abused me.
The strength of relationships [between ministers and public servants] depends on having trusted conversations. [What matters is] not whether or not who said what to whom, but whether I felt or feel any sense of pressure or influence to behave in any way other than with complete integrity.
Continue reading…Referencing the work of her predecessor, the late Peta Murphy, the member for Dunkley backs recommendation of 2023 report that found Australians lose $25bn a year to betting. Follow latest updatesAt the Senate Estimates spillover session last night, senators grilled home affairs secretary, Stephanie Foster, about reports that the government was concerned that in February she tabled a document detailing the criminal record of people released as a result of the high court’s NZYQ decision.Foster said:The [home affairs] minister [Clare O’Neil] and I will always discuss the Estimates process in a routine way. The reports that the minister verbally abused me are absolutely baseless. I would like to echo comments made by the ministers, that my relationship with both [O’Neil and immigration minister Andrew Giles] is very close, very constructive … At no point, on that occasion, or ever, has minister O’Neil verbally abused me.The strength of relationships [between ministers and public servants] depends on having trusted conversations. [What matters is] not whether or not who said what to whom, but whether I felt or feel any sense of pressure or influence to behave in any way other than with complete integrity. Continue reading…