Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I'm speaking on the amendment very briefly, to help clarify matters. There are two ways that amendments could be moved here. One is to amend a particular section of the report to be dealt with as a discrete item to be voted upon, and then for amendments to other sections of the report to be moved as separate items. Senator Siewert has chosen to seek to move an amendment on an unrelated matter, which I think is causing the confusion, but, to follow the path that has been chosen, I move the following amendment unrelated to the previous two amendments:

At the end of the motion, add:

"and in respect of the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2018, the bill not be referred to the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee for inquiry and report."