Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

I thank senators for their contributions on the Designs Amendment (Advisory Council on Intellectual Property Response) Bill 2020. I particularly want to note on this that we are here talking about intellectual property, and that covers a whole range of issues. I'm looking at the fact that Senator Brown is a very proud Tasmanian senator and I want to commend her particularly on something that we didn't get to deal with in the last session, and that is her support—along with that of all Labor senators, Senator Lambie and all Liberal senators—for the forestry industry. There are many intellectual property issues in that. I just wanted to put on record how proud I am to work with most of my Tasmanian Senate colleagues on issues like that. Hopefully, we'll get to deal with that motion that we didn't deal with before the next sitting week.

I thank senators for their contributions on this bill and, in commending the bill to the Senate, I also table an addendum to the explanatory memorandum relating to this bill. The addendum responds to concerns raised by the Scrutiny of Bills Committee.

Question agreed to.

Bill read a second time.