Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader for Science) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition will not be supporting these amendments. We acknowledge Senator Muir's genuine interest in this legislation and his efforts to engage with the policy issues. Labor do not support the government's or the Greens' ill-considered tinkering with the Senate voting system, but we do not believe that this particular measure of Senator Muir's would take us forward. We appreciate Senator Muir's efforts to ameliorate some of the worst elements of the government's and the Greens' botched legislation; however, Labor do not support this particular proposal by Senator Muir. Thus we shall not be supporting these amendments. I will just take this opportunity to repeat our acknowledgement of Senator Muir's good-faith efforts.