Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I would like to note that this is the government’s own legislation. It has been in this House for only a number of days and we are already talking about amending it. This was just tabled then. I will take the Assistant Treasurer’s word that it is a technical amendment. Quite frankly, like for a lot of these things, it would be helpful if we were given notice and given time to consider things. Somebody up the back laughs. When we are debating things in this parliament, it is perfectly reasonable for us to have a chance to reasonably consider them. We are not going to oppose the amendment. But, like with a lot of these things, it would have been nice to have had a little bit of notice and some time to consider it in the interests of getting the best legislative outcome for the people of Australia.

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