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

Just briefly: this is one of those amendments that by rights should have gone to the Senate Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade so that it could have been properly assessed so that we could have taken evidence so that we could have put these propositions to the witnesses who have given up an enormous amount of their time and effort to try and inform this parliament of some of the mistakes that are being made. All I will say, as I have said on a number of government amendments, is: this has not been properly analysed. I will not be calling a division but I want to record my thorough objection to the way that the government is handling this bill.

Question agreed to.