Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—The Greens oppose schedules 1 and 2 in the following terms:

(1) Schedule 1, page 3 (line 1) to page 6 (line 5), to be opposed.

(2) Schedule 2, page 7 (line 1) to page 9 (line 21), to be opposed.

With the conclusion of this committee stage, we've now offered the chamber the opportunity to make clear that such call-out orders will be subject to the scrutiny of the parliament, which was voted down. We've given the chamber the opportunity to prescribe exactly what is meant by 'emergency', something which the major parties in this place have also voted against in the course of this committee stage. We've given the major parties the opportunity to ensure that actions are taken in consultation with the states and territories, and they have voted against that. We've given them the opportunity to remove the provision of immunity to foreign defence forces and to foreign police—something which they have just voted against—along with a clarification of the use of force, which has just been voted against. Every opportunity to improve this bill has been foregone by the major parties in this place. Every concern raised at the committee level has been ignored. So, finally, we give the opportunity for these highly inappropriate sections of the legislation to be separated from the one piece of this bill which does have merit—that is, the sections in relation to superannuation. There is indeed a need to address the discrepancies identified by the legislation—something that we support—and we now seek to separate the bill to enable those two pieces to be considered independently of each other. So I commend that position to the chamber.