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

This amendment, as I understand it, is supported around the chamber. It will provide extra protection. Therefore, there does not seem to be debate about the actual substance. I think for the want of creating some debate on it, the question was, ‘Why are we tacking it onto this particular bill?’ Because—and we make no apology for this—it is convenient. To bring in a separate bill simply for those two amendments we believe would have been a lot of administrative work to deal with a matter that seems to have unanimous support in this chamber.