Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Aged Care, Disabilities and Carers) Share this | Hansard source

Labor will be supporting this amendment. I acknowledge—and we spoke of this at length during the committee inquiry—that the current requirement for the number of people who need to be consulted does result in a very time consuming process. That is possibly not the way we should be heading. But removing the requirement to consult from the existing legislation and being clear about who needs to be consulted and moving to consulting appropriately is a huge leap. I think it is only appropriate that we know who is not going to be on the list of people who are going to be consulted. Let us find out what that means. Let us find out who is now not going to be consulted so that we can be clear about who is in and who is out from now on.