Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

At estimates, when I asked this question I was not told about this. The reason I have raised it again is that I was not informed that the government was taking this issue seriously, that it was undertaking a review, or that there had had been significant progress. You were not able to discuss it in more detail. There were some flippant answers given and no commitment at all that there was a lot of further work being done on this particular amendment. In the past when I raised these issues there was no commitment given to undertake this. I was not reassured during the estimates process. I was reassured during the discussion that we previously had in this place; hence my disappointment during estimates when I did not get a satisfactory answer to the questions I was asking. If the situation has changed between then and now, I am pleased, but I would like a time frame within which we can expect some action.