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

Senator Paterson, I completely reject what you were just saying. There are a lot of very important questions to be asked about this legislation. What I wanted to ask, finally, on those consultations, Minister, is this. You said documentation of those consultations isn't on the public record. I ask if you could please take on notice to provide the documentation of those consultations for us.

I have one further question in terms of those consultations. In terms of the rules and guidelines that have been laid out, I'm interested to know what discussions there have been with the states and territories or local governments about the arrangements with particular countries where the understanding will be that, yes, those arrangements will certainly need to be particularly scrutinised. Or is there a group of arrangements with particular countries that are ruled out, essentially because there is no worry, and so there isn't going to be considerable scrutiny of those countries. If so, has there been an articulation of which countries fall within those two buckets?