Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

I will try to be brief in indicating that the government opposes the amendments for the reasons that were outlined by the Attorney-General in the other place and by Senator Ellison in his summing-up speech. Suffice to say that Mr Ruddock, on 11 May 2006 in the other place, indicated that 10 years was chosen as a compromise—