Natasha Stott Despoja (SA, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

The Australian Democrats will be supporting the opposition’s amendments for the change in terminology from ‘equal’ to ‘joint’. We support that for much the same reasons as I outlined in my comments on Democrat amendment (2). We do note the difference in the inclusion of the word ‘shared’. The Democrats had omitted this word for reasons of simplification, but we do not particularly object to its inclusion in the ALP amendments, so we will be supporting them.