Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The legislative instrument is the one I have been referring to today that we are currently working on. The instrument and policy guidelines will be available and we would like to see their passage through the parliament by April—I will put in a plug for that. I expect that they will go through the consultative process; I am advised that is right. In terms of the issue around the ABS definition, the guidelines within the legislative instrument will be broadened to capture those who would be classified as homeless according to the ABS definition.