Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

No. 1—Omit subparagraph (1)(a).

No. 2—In subparagraph (b)(i), omit “prima facie would”, substitute “could”.

I apologise for the fact that we haven't circulated these amendments, due to the shortness of time this morning. The amendments I would move would delete paragraph (1)(a) from the motion, and there would be a further amendment to delete, in part (b)(i), the words 'prima facie would' and replace them with 'could'. The heart of these amendments is to take out some of the commentary around this. They would simply require the Minister representing the Prime Minister to attend the Senate and make a statement of no more than 10 minutes detailing those subsections, but without prejudging or making commentary about that. It would be a straight statement, and we would then be happy to support this motion.

Question agreed to.