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

The Greens will be supporting this amendment. As I articulated before, we would prefer such instructions and requirements to be in the legislation. We still believe it would enable some degree of flexibility but also make sure that this is taken into account. This is a very important issue. Providing notes at least will guide the secretary in terms of what the secretary needs to take into account to determine the period, so we will be supporting this. We think it is a significant improvement to the way that the secretary can exercise their discretion.