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

I acknowledge for the record that it is a very rare thing in this place for that kind of outcome to occur, and it has taken a lot before. As this is probably the last amendment that we will be dealing with, I want to thank my staff, particularly Felicity Ruby, who has worked through the entire weekend. I suspect Senator Johnston and the Minister have put a number of their staff in the same position, to catch up with the mad scramble that has been dished up to them by a bad process. I will acknowledge without condition that it is rather a rare and wonderful thing that an improvement can be made on the fly to a bill by negotiation, and it is worth acknowledging when that occurs. I do commend this amendment to the chamber.