Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move opposition amendments (1) and (2):

(1)    Clause 4, page 2 (lines 21 to 28), omit subclauses (2) and (3), substitute:

        (2)    To the extent that this subsection applies, the provisions referred to in paragraph (1)(a), and any acts referred to in paragraph (1)(b), are, for the purposes of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, special measures and are consistent with Part 2 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.

        (3)    To the extent that this subsection applies, the provisions referred to in paragraph (1)(a), and any acts referred to in paragraph (1)(b), are not laws as described by subsection 10(3) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.

(2)    Clause 6, page 4 (line 33) to page 5 (line 2), omit subclauses 6(2) and 6(3), substitute:

        (2)    Any such implementation, or other acts, are, for the purposes of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, special measures and are consistent with Part 2 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.

        (3)    Any such implementation, or other acts, are not laws as described by subsection 10(3) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.

These amendments relate to the Racial Discrimination Act and Labor’s attempt to provide for this legislation to invoke and encompass the RDA rather than seek to exclude the provisions of the RDA from this legislative package. We had this debate much earlier today. The government is not willing to look at ways of accommodating that view, therefore these amendments will be lost again, so I will not waste the time of the Senate other than to formally move them.

Question negatived.