Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

It will move on. It is basically, 'Trust us that everything's going to be okay,' and my experience has been that that's not a good basis for public policy.

I want to move to the issue of how constitutionally sound this legislation is, given the opinion from Professor George Williams in his appearance before our committee. What confidence do you have that the bill is constitutionally sound and cannot be overturned in a High Court challenge, given that the external affairs power is shared between the states and the Commonwealth?