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

I thank the parliamentary secretary for her answer. I do appreciate why the government is making those changes. The specific concern is what the department does when it is informed. I understand—both from question and answer sessions during the committee inquiry and from further information provided on notice—that sanctions may be applied. The sector wants to know if it is true that such sanctions may—and I am not saying ‘will’, but ‘may’—be applied; that it may be one of the responses. What will those sanctions be and under what circumstances would they be applied? If sanctions are not going to be applied, we will be satisfied, sit down and let the matter rest.