I'm much less turned on by penalties than I am by public reporting. I think I've said that before. I think what's important is the public report and the light being shed on whatever has been done wrong.
I think there is a place for administrative monetary penalties in the case of people who simply don't get their reports in on time, and it would be another mechanism to deal with contraventions where it wasn't worthwhile doing a full investigation. If somebody admitted they'd done something wrong, it would be an easy way to deal with it expeditiously.
I made a distinction in my last submission between administrative monetary penalties and penalties for things that were found to be a contravention. I recognize it seems that there's a 50-50 split out there as to whether big penalties should be imposed when somebody is found to have contravened. Personally, I don't think they're that important, but some people think they're really important.
The other issue is that it would become a different system, I think, if there were serious big penalties. It would become a criminal offence probably, and there's a question as to whether that belongs in the type of office that I now have.
In the context of the act that I'm now administering, I don't think penalties are necessary with the contraventions.