Skye Kakoschke-Moore (SA, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. I am just seeking your guidance for a moment. I have an amendment to Labor's amendments that we are debating at the moment. Should I move those now or wait until the question has been put on Labor's amendments on sheet 8037?

The CHAIR: If you want to move an amendment to the amendments that are being put by Senator Wong on behalf of the Labor Party, you need to do that now.

Thank you. On behalf of the Nick Xenophon Team, I seek leave to move amendments to the amendments proposed by the opposition on sheet 8037.

Leave granted.

On behalf of the Nick Xenophon Team, I move amendments (3) to (8) on sheet 8051:

AMENDMENTS TO OPPOSITION AMENDMENTS [SHEET 8037]

(3) Amendment (1), item 1, subsection 360.2(1), omit "20 years", substitute "30 years".

(4) Amendment (1), item 1C, omit "20 years", substitute "30 years".

(5) Amendment (2), item 3B, omit "20 years", substitute "30 years".

(6) Amendment (2), item 3E, omit "20 years", substitute "30 years".

(7) Amendment (2), item 3H, omit "20 years", substitute "30 years".

(8) Amendment (2), item 3L, omit "20 years", substitute "30 years".

The Nick Xenophon Team believes that increasing the maximum penalty for this offence sends a decisive message to both the community and potential offenders that trafficking illegal firearms is not acceptable and that the consequences for doing so will entail harsher penalties.

The CHAIR: Thank you. Senator Brandis.