Mr BANDT (Melbourne—Leader of the Australian Greens) (09:33): I rise to speak in support of the Prime Minister's motion to endorse the code of conduct for parliamentarians and to provide my response to the Set the standard report as leader of the Greens. The Greens support all the recommendations and are working to implement them. I'd like to thank all the women who came forward to tell their stories. These stories demanded change. I'm proud to lead a party which is helping to improve the standards in this place as a result. The experience of these women—as atrocious and appalling as it was revealed to be—is driving a new norm and a new expectation of what's acceptable in our workplace. As a result, we support the work of the Parliamentary Leadership Taskforce and the committee working on the codes of conduct. The Greens regularly discuss and will promote once implemented the codes of conduct within the staff and in the party room. It's the role of leaders, office holders and chiefs of staff to understand our obligation to staff and all who work in this building, in electorate offices and in all Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces. It's our job to provide a safe and respectful workplace. It's our job to ensure that we have a culture of respect and safety which extends outside our own offices to the staff in this place, whether they're the editor of a newspaper, the person who cleans our office or the person who works in the parliamentary library. This place must have a culture that we can all be proud of. We know that, for that to happen, all leaders in this place must place a high priority on working to implement the Set the standard report recommendations, and I take my role in that very seriously. We've been asked to engage in regular discussions to set expectations of conduct and to champion the code. It has been requested that we create a safe reporting culture, including supporting people who experience misconduct, take responsibility for safety obligations and attend training on respectful workplace behaviour. We've also been requested in the Set the standard report to update the parliament on what we've done in each of our own parties, and I'm pleased to give an update on that. In November last year, I delivered what will be the first quarterly statement to the party room on expected behaviour consistent with the report. I and my chief of staff attended training on respectful workplace behaviour, people management and inclusive leadership. Today, on behalf of the Greens, I support the new codes of conduct and commit to upholding these values and supporting my colleagues within the party room to do the same. On this issue, I would like to genuinely thank all parliamentarians from across the parliamentary spectrum for the work they have done on the Parliamentary Leadership Taskforce and also for the development of the codes of conduct. For my own party, I'd like to place on the record my thanks and my support for Senator Larissa Waters for her work representing our party on the leadership task force and Senator Mehreen Faruqi for her continued and steadfast commitment to ensuring that racism has no place in this building. I believe that this code is greatly improved because of their relentless advocacy. Prior to the Set the standard report, in the absence of a workplace code of conduct for Parliament House, MOP(S) Act staff and MPs, the Greens party room created our own code a decade ago, along with guidance for MPs on expected behaviours and standards of conduct. We have refined our code of conduct after the Jenkins review. We reviewed and renewed our internal processes after the release of the Set the standard report, in consultation with staff representatives and the PWSS. I would also like to place on record my thanks to all of the staff of the PWSS for their assistance in helping us all improve our standards. Our processes prioritise supporting staff and other people who report misconduct. The process prioritises supporting complainants to access the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service. If the code is breached, we can and will impose sanctions on MPs who breach this code, following a formal investigation. I've also acted to ensure that not only do we meet the minimum standards of the MaPS safe workplace training required of MPs and senior staff but that it's mandatory for our MPs, and my office continues to provide an additional skills development program on antiracism, inclusion and First Nations cultural safety that will continue. Importantly, this additional training, above and beyond the minimum standard, is provided and delivered by people with lived experience of the subject matter. Gender equity and equal opportunity are founding principles of the Australian Greens, and those principles continue to inform our decisions regarding recruitment and management of staff, the composition of our leadership teams and our attitudes towards our workplace conditions. Our federal parliamentary team is very diverse with a majority of federal parliamentarians identifying as women and with representation from First Nations communities, people of colour, people with a disability, LGBTQIA+, people from regional areas and young people. We recognise that diversity in representation is crucial to ensuring a just and more equal society. In this place, we as leaders have an obligation not only to model best practice work health and safety practices but to ensure we support our MPs to do the same and ensure a safe and respectful workplace for the many staff who work in this building and in electorate offices across the country who work diligently to make a meaningful contribution to our society through their work and who deserve to be respected, be safe from harm and to be rewarded equally and fairly for their hard work and commitment. I will continue to lead the implementation of the Set the standard recommendations within the Greens, and I welcome the introduction of further legislative and cultural change driven by the work of the Parliamentary Leadership Taskforce.