Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I understand completely the tactics. We certainly want the ability to ventilate this issue further. I personally would support amendments that I think are not so much non-controversial as inconsequential, but they are consequences only in that they make the issue go to the other place and then return here. I understand that completely. However, I ask this question of the government: did you consider an amendment to deal with the issue that pertains to the obvious technical inadequacies of the bill in dealing with the access regime between AWB and the Melbourne port?