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

I indicate the opposition’s support for that amendment. I foreshadow that we will also be supporting Democrat amendments (23), (26), (32) and (38). That saves me jumping up and down to say we agree to individual amendments. The Democrats have put the merit behind those amendments, and we understand that. We support the merit and we support the amendments they are seeking. They are effectively trying to improve the bill. Ultimately, we have formed the view, which I suspect the Democrats have also formed, that the government is not going to accede to any of those amendments. That is the motivation by Labor to ultimately oppose schedule 2 in the final position, which we will get to shortly.