Senator PARRY (Tasmania—Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman of Committees) (18:10): I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I indicate to the chamber—and I am sure most senators are aware—that use of assumed identifies is always reported to the parliament. The Australian Crime Commission is very assiduous in handling these matters, also being part of the regulatory framework. On top of that the Australian Crime Commission is under the jurisdiction of the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, which is an oversight body which ensures that there are no systemic or serious corruption issues within that agency, along with the Australian Federal Police and now the customs agencies. Today during the tabling of ministerial responses to reports from committees of the parliament, including the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, the annual review of the annual report of the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity was tabled. I encourage senators to make themselves familiar with that report. Several recommendations made by that committee were adopted by the government and the government has stated that it intends to fulfil some of the recommendations. When the committee met earlier today, it thought it was commendable of the government to do so. This is a bipartisan committee made up of senators and members from both houses. The committee has made serious recommendations after a lengthy examination. One of those recommendations related to the potential increase in the term of the Commissioner of the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity. The commissioner's tenure would ordinarily expire after a set period of time. However, the committee did recommend some time ago that it would be prudent for the government to have the option at least to extend the commissioner's tenure by a period of two years. When we did that we added a caveat, which was that if the minister deemed that necessary and appropriate the committee would need to sign off on that. To me that was a fairly significant aspect. The committee recommended that as an immediate measure the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service be brought under ACLEI's jurisdiction on a whole-of-agency basis by regulation. That was agreed to. The committee also recommended that in the longer term the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service be prescribed as a law enforcement agency within the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006. Again, that was agreed to. Also, the committee recommended that ACLEI be appropriately staffed and funded as commensurate with the task of detecting, preventing and investigating corruption in an agency of the size and complexity of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. This proved to be what we believed would have been one of the more complicated recommendations, but the government has agreed to it. It shows the commitment under the Howard government, when ACLEI was established, and also now under the current regime to anticorruption measures. It demonstrates that anticorruption agencies are valued and will be entrenched within governments to come. I seek leave to continue my remarks later. Leave granted; debate adjourned.