Lisa Singh (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition—Labor—also will not be supporting these amendments, for similar reasons. As we understand it, they do not have the support of the basin states. They have been delivered at pretty much the eleventh hour, and as we have contacted some of those basin states we understand they have not been consulted on these amendments. Therefore we cannot support these amendments, because the principle of our negotiated position has always been that this is a bipartisan position which includes the support of the basin states.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: The question now is that Australian Greens amendment (3) on sheet 7909 stand as printed.

Question agreed to.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: I am now going to call Senator Simms to move the next batch of amendments. I would ask senators to remain in the chamber to facilitate the swift resolution of these amendments.