I think it might be helpful for us all to reflect on what the role of parliamentary officers is.
On reflection, I'm going to withdraw my amendment to change it to $5,000, actually, and just vote against the $50,000. Parliamentary officers are not elected, they're not surrounded by any due process. They have a great deal of independence, including pretty strong security of tenure, and they are there with investigative powers to shine light on a situation. I think if we introduced a severe penalty regime, even to $5,000, beyond just the administrative wrist slapping, we would set up the commissioner to all sorts of challenges on due process, for really overseeing a criminal-type sanction regime, which is not the intended purpose of that office. While it's fine to think that we're just looking for wrongdoers, and who cares, I think the system would be under severe challenge very quickly.
Just to give you the other side of a potential scenario, we could have a person as a commissioner who is totally unreasonable, who could start handing out large fines without any due process around it, and I think the whole scheme would crumble in front of us as being unconstitutional.
So I withdraw my $5,000.