Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I make the obvious point that the minister's power in the bill, as I said, is a reserve power, and for the record so that Senator Birmingham can sleep tonight—I would not want him to stay up at night worrying—any instruments are subject to consultation and disallowance as a matter of course under the Legislative Instruments Act. You could have saved yourself a good 15 minutes there.