George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

These amendments relate to the removal of the mandatory minimum sentence provision. The government has put its position in relation to that. I will not canvass the arguments either. The amendments do weaken the legislation. Given the point of the legislation is to send a very strong signal to firearms traffickers, that is a great shame. The government will be opposing these two opposition amendments.

The CHAIR: The question is that items 2, 4 and 5 on schedule 1 stand as printed.