Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I can gladly say that I am not going to move amendments (1) to (26) on sheet 5133 revised. I think I made the point and foreshadowed that I would not be moving those amendments in relation to strict liability. I dealt with those comprehensively. What we have had, of course, is the shocking position where the government backslid on five strict liability offences, with significant pushing by Labor, and then they backslid again because of the nonsensical position they got to. So, rather than try to complicate it any further, I indicated then that I thought they were wrong the first time and they were still wrong the second time. I think I have made that point three or four times now, so I will not continue to make the point. We can move on to the Democrat amendments.