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

I thank the minister for his answer. I just want to indicate that the Greens will be supporting these amendments, even though we are not very happy, as you can tell from our amendment, which we will be discussing later on, in terms of the high-income threshold. But we will be supporting (12) and (13), particularly because we think that the provision, given that it is going to exist, is an important protection against future governments actually undermining the award system by lowering the threshold. As I said, we think a preferable amendment is the one that we will be moving, even though the government have already signalled that they will not be supporting it. As we are unlikely to persuade the chamber about our approach, we think it is good to put these protections around it, so we will be supporting these amendments.