Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Fantastic! So your colleagues recommended that the bill be passed! Everyone else who looked at the bill and all of the experts that looked at the bill—the eminent legal advisers to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, the eminent legal adviser to the Scrutiny of Bills Committee, the Law Council of Australia, the Australian Industry Group—said there are huge problems with this bill, but your defence is that simply the committee made a decision. That is pretty weak. I am not surprised, Chair, that the minister can't defend the bill as it has been drafted, because it was so badly drafted.

We have dealt with a number of the amendments. I want to just move to items (1), (6) and (10), which are amendments that we are moving. These amendments—