Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Notwithstanding that it is atypical for JSCOT to look at the wording of legislation, the fact is that there is a precedent here with respect to this piece of legislation in relation to cluster munitions, and the convention on cluster munitions, that JSCOT did look at it. Given the importance—and I say this without any sense of irony—that the government places on our treaty obligations to ensure that we comply with treaties, what harm would there be for this matter to be referred in the next six or 12 months to JSCOT to carefully analyse the wording in the legislation to see whether there is any scope for it to be in any way further amended, subject to further scrutiny for the legislative amendments, given the work that JSCOT has already undertaken in relation to this legislation?