Thank you, Mr. Stedman.
Thank you, Ms. Nathan.
If you do have any thoughts on that, Mr. Stedman, and you want to share them with the committee following your appearance here today, I would certainly welcome that on behalf of the committee.
Ms. Turnbull, you mentioned very early on in your intervention the attraction to the public service of professionals from outside the public service. We're seeing, for example, in the Major Projects Office, secondments going on where people are coming in, and they're being seconded for perhaps whatever expertise they may apply to the office.
I'm not sure that many of them would be designated public office holders, but in post-employment periods when they return to their company, should the committee be concerned with any leverage that they may have gained, any understanding of how government works or any connections that they may have made for the purposes of lobbying post-secondment? The company they return to may be connected in some way to the Major Projects Office. Should we consider that aspect of it?
Ms. Turnbull.
