David Feeney (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

That is a difficult question to answer, as you would appreciate, Senator. I look to the example I used a little earlier, and that was bird flu research. The minister is able to waive the requirements and introduce something into the public domain where, as was the case with bird flu, there was a broader, vaster public good required. I am unable to anticipate what the next example of such an occasion might be, but clearly the regulatory regime proposed by the government does contemplate those sorts of circumstances and the government responding.