Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition will not be supporting these further changes. We appreciate that the Greens have joined us on the most substantive components of this bill; however, the changes Senator Siewert is referring to, as I understand it, rather than dealing with her concerns—which, regarding the language and punitive nature of the current approach, we agree with—are technical changes to paragraphs 42S(3)(b) and 42S(3B)(a) to cover circumstances where the relocation assistance may have been paid to another person for the benefit of the person eligible to receive relocation assistance. On that basis, as technical changes, we see these as reasonable and will not be supporting the Greens changes.