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

It is very spooky and every time it happens I feel like I am in the twilight zone, particularly at two o’clock in the morning. However, I do agree that it was sensible to move straight to this amendment because, as you rightly said, it deals with the issues that we dealt with in our two amendments which related to this issue. One of our amendments, amendment (8), put the position that we believe the unfair dismissal timing should be moved to 21 days. We also had an alternative that, if that failed, we should go back to 14 days because we believe 14 days is better than seven days—although not, of course, as good as 21 days. So we will be supporting this amendment and I indicate that the Greens will withdraw our amendments (8) and (9). I will withdraw (10) as well, given the lateness of the hour, if this amendment succeeds.