Matt Keogh (Burt, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the:

(1) House endorses the statement of the Speaker in relation to the constitutional questions raised by Message No. 428 transmitted by the Senate in relation to the Veterans' Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Bill 2024; and

(2) message be considered immediately.

Question agreed to.

I move:

That the Senate's purported amendment (4) be disagreed to.

I am moving that the amendment be disagreed to only for the reason of the constitutional issues that were raised in the statement by the Deputy Speaker. The content of the amendment is not disagreed to, and it's proposed that the content of that amendment be moved as an amendment in the House so that it all has the same import in the final legislation. This is merely to do with the constitutional issue raise by the Deputy Speaker.

We will move through a process of disagreeing to the Senate's purported amendment. We'll then have the message from the Governor-General. We'll then move that amendment in the House, agree that and then agree the remaining amendments from the Senate so that the bill is then finalised here, in the House. I look forward to the agreement of all in the House to make sure that we are able to pass this bill today.

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