Sarah Henderson (Corangamite, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Think of the lawyers, but let us think of the justice as well; let us think of the cost of justice. To subject consumers to the Supreme Court and the Federal Court as the only option is no option at all. That is what the Labor Party is saying. Do members opposite understand how much it would cost to litigate and to go to appeal and perhaps even go to a High Court appeal? The member for Isaacs might know, being a former silk, but that could run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. So, I commend the government on this absolutely fundamental reform. It shows that our government is serious about standing up for consumers, is serious about justice, is serious about free, affordable access to justice and is serious about action with real policy ideas, not the vacuum of no ideas from those opposite.

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