Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Australian Greens will support this amendment from the Australian Labor Party which effectively inserts penalties for failure to comply with provisions in this legislation. We think this will significantly strengthen the bill. We accept that there's a philosophical difference between the coalition parties and the Greens in terms of the level of trust that we have in big business to do the right thing. We believe that it is important to work with business to bring them along on this journey but that we need to keep an appropriately sized stick in the back of our legislative pocket to ensure that there are ramifications for any business which fails to comply.

The CHAIR: The question is that amendments (3) to (6) on sheet 8549, as moved by Senator Farrell, be agreed to.