Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Abetz, I may not have been as clear in my first answer as I ought to have been. The advice I have been given is that the bill states and the government’s policy is that AWAs will continue up to and past their nominal expiry date until terminated or replaced. I made two points about that. Firstly, this is a transitional provision and, secondly, the government, when in opposition, did lay out this in detail in our election policy. Both of our policies, as you will recall, were released well prior to the election and were substantively litigated.