Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I take your point. So you're expecting, then, over half to go to a two-week exclusion and then half of them again. Yes, sorry; I take your point. While I'm on my feet, I will, first off, very clearly remind people where we're up to: the Greens oppose this bill. We think that there are many schedules in this bill that will have a detrimental impact on people struggling on income support. Having said that, we think this series of amendments makes things slightly better. So if the will of the Senate is not what the Greens want—in other words, the bill is supported—these amendments will make the provision slightly better, so we will be supporting these amendments.

The Greens also have a series of amendments to schedule 15. I'll address those when I move them. We also have a series of questions. Unfortunately, we've had a period of time now—I think it's four weeks—since we were debating this last time, and we did, I know, go over some questions. I will try not to repeat those, but I do have some more questions on the issues here which I think are probably better addressed when I go to my amendments.