Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Resources) Share this | Hansard source

In the short time available to us, we've come to the conclusion that we have not been consulted on this. We're happy to be corrected if that is untrue, but we are unaware of it. I can't have any confidence that I know what this amendment does. I have a fair idea and I'm fairly relaxed about it. On the basis that I doubt very much, on what is very much a bipartisan issue, that the government would put forward anything that would disturb us, the opposition is prepared, regrettably in the circumstances, to support the amendment.

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