Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I also wish to place on the record that the opposition will be supporting Senator Fielding in his amendment to the Selection of Bills Committee report. We believe that the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill deserves proper scrutiny. Senator Milne just indicated that this is a deferral. That is totally incorrect. This is proper scrutiny of a very complex bill. This bill was introduced into the House of Representatives yesterday. There was no examination available until the bill was introduced. The bill is intrinsically linked with the CPRS suite of legislation, and we wish this to be examined in the same way as that was. That was examined by the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, which had a reasonable amount of time to deal with that. We wish this bill to proceed to that committee to be examined, with the committee reporting back by 12 August, which is not an unreasonable period of time considering the serious implications of this proposed legislation.