Andrew Bartlett (Queensland, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

As I said in my comments, I foreshadowed the amendment rather than formally moved it because I wanted to clarify the situation with the minister, which I was able to do to some extent in the estimates committee process. That was before this committee stage of the debate. I had a concern that the changes that the government announced on their new tests would be done administratively under this component of the bill here, but it has been made clear that that is not going to happen and that there will be a new legislative framework put forward for this new test. That being the case, I will not proceed with that foreshadowed amendment. I will let that one sit and we can look at the actual legislation dealing with citizenship when it does come in at some stage down the track. I will take the opportunity before we hit the suspension at two o’clock for question time to get one final response from the minister as to whether there is any rough timetable he can give for when the legislation dealing with the new test might be introduced or when we could see an exposure draft.