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

The Democrats oppose schedule 3 in the following terms:

(38)  Schedule 3, item 2, page 60 (lines 8 to 13), TO BE OPPOSED.

We seek to oppose item 2 of schedule 3. Schedule 3 is short; it just deals with some amendments to prescribed bodies corporate. The Democrats’ view is that the issue raised in item 2 would best be deferred until the next round of amendments. My understanding is that there are further changes to the Native Title Act in the pipeline for us to all look forward to, relating to prescribed bodies corporate, and amendments to the regulations in that area. Our view is that it would be preferable to defer this item until all of the changes to the Native Title Act relevant to this area of PBCs and the amendments to the regulations can be considered together.