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

by leave—I see that Senator Cormann has amended the motion to add one month. I am advised that, given that the Productivity Commissioner’s existing workload, it is not possible for them to complete the new report. I have got 30 April 2011, but I am sure that an additional one month would make very little difference to that position, and it would likewise be the case for the end of May 2011.