Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

If I said it was the COIL process, what I meant to say was that a COIL-like process will be adopted. COIL is an established mechanism for workplace relations laws. This particular bill does not necessarily fit into that category. But we, as a government, and I think successive governments, have found the COIL process informative and helpful, and so a similar process, albeit on an informal basis, will be taking place to ensure that the formulation of the draft legislation and then the draft legislation is ventilated and workshopped by the various stakeholders to ensure that they have input and they, of course, have access to good legal advice. Also, people with good practical experience can then ask questions as to how the draft legislation, which might be very well intentioned, might actually work out in practice with real-life experience. With no disrespect to the drafters of the legislation, having people read it who have real-life experience can sometimes shed light onto the well-intentioned drafting to ensure that it can, in fact, be of practical application as well.