The Chief Minister brought a motion requiring all non-executive members to regularly release details of their workplace travel and diary meetings, stating his intention was bto ring the obligations of non-executive members in line with those of ministers.

The leader of the Canberra Liberals proposed an amendment to acknowledge pre-existing transparency measures for non-executive members. Her amendment called on the Government to fund the Integrity Commissioner to carry out a lobbying inquiry and removed the requirement for non-executive MLAs to publish diaries. Thomas proposed a further amendment that would have seen the Chief Minister’s original motion and the Opposition Leader’s proposed amendments passed in full. His amendment reintroduced the obligation to publish diaries, stating that he has nothing to hide and is in strong support of any measures that improve transparency in the Assembly. 

Debate was adjourned until later that day, after which time Greens MLA Andrew Braddock put forward another amendment containing what most members perceived to be the best elements of everything that had been proposed by all sides, while removing the requirement to publish diaries until that proposal had been considered by the relevant Assembly Committee. The Greens amendment passed unanimously.