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Top defence officials faced questions about the Albanese government's $3 billion defence estate overhaul during Senate estimates hearings on Wednesday.
The hearings were Greg Moriarty's final appearance as secretary of the Department of Defence, following his appointment to replace Kevin Rudd as Australia's Ambassador to the US.
Treasury secretary Jenny Wilkinson appeared after the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate hike last week, with Coalition senators honing in on concerns about record-high government spending. Bureaucrats were probed on supermarket price gouging changes, capital gains tax discounts and forward estimates.
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Outgoing APS Commissioner Gordon de Brouwer was moved to tears while thanking the finance and public administration committee. Senator Katy Gallagher praised his legacy of integrity, confirming his replacement would be found through an open, external recruitment process.
Home Affairs officials were grilled over the massive backlog of questions on notice in Minister Tony Burke's office, with some departmental briefs on asylum seekers sitting unanswered for more than a year.
Early in the morning, the environment and communications committee got off to a frosty start with Senator Sarah Henderson going back and forth with Infrastructure Secretary Jim Betts about the nature of former deputy secretary James Chisholm's decision to leave the department.
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