Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

If I can get an indication from the chair that this debate will close in 47 seconds—

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: Indeed!

As much as the minister knows I love to have the last word, the reason I have detained us until this hour and not moved through the Greens amendments—but I indicate that I will start moving through the amendments in the morning—is that we are about to sign onto a convention that promotes the total global elimination of cluster weapons and we are directly and deliberately including clauses that allow us to plan military operations in which they are used and conduct military operations in which they are used, not by Australia but by units supported by Australia. To my view, that is a vast misreading of the intention of the convention, and that is why we will oppose the bill if our amendments are not supported.