George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The reason that the opposition will be opposing the repeal and substitution of section 46(1AB) is that by the structure of the section as it would be proposed it only operates upon section 46(1AA). The opposition opposes the amendments to section 46(1AA). It wishes to leave section 46(1AA) alone. It therefore opposes the repeal of 46(1AB) in its existing form. So section 46(1AB) as it appears in the current act would stand.