Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Abetz, you might seek to delay a matter as important as this by counting down exactly three months but the critical reason I gave you all of the dates and the background was to highlight the fact that, even though it was some small bit short of three months, sufficient time was allowed for notice to be provided to state governments and relevant parties and sufficient time has also been there for those parties or state governments to respond and indeed inform government amendments to the bill.