It's an absolutely critical puzzle, in a sense. Look, I have no partisan axes to grind on any side here, but I think it's clear to anyone that you would defeat the purpose of giving sensible advice and being able to engage in investigations, which sometimes need to be developed away from the public glare, if the entire thing was transparent from start to finish.
On the other hand, it seems completely unfair for me to ask for the investigation on a Wednesday, launch a complaint, and then on Friday stand up and say, “I hear the minister is under investigation by the Ethics Commissioner and that's reason number 15 why they should resign”, and not have either the Ethics Commissioner or the subject minister be able to say anything in defence of that.
To me the goal is how to make sure we're going to get efficient, effective investigation, with efficient transparency to enhance public confidence and to avoid that kind of potential unfairness. If this just becomes another vehicle through which to express partisanship, then I think we've clearly lost an opportunity for accountability, which is what the public wants. But that said, it has to live within the realities—