Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Greens do not agree that that bill should not be referred. We did refer it. We think that the Senate committee should be looking into that particular bill on provisions. We are very disappointed that the Senate is deciding not to refer it, so we would like to note our dissent from that call by the Selection of Bills Committee. I obviously did not sway the committee in my arguments last night, and I do not think I will sway the Senate in the arguments now. I do not wish to delay the business of the Senate but I would like it recorded that we dissent from the agreement between Labor and the government that it should not be sent to committee.