Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Patrick—through you, Chair. As I've said, this is exactly the same as what we've already implemented for the first nine, and that system is working well. Of course, if there is no regulation—because these changes do not generate a regulation—then that is not disallowable, because there is no regulation, because it's a different process. Again, it's a process that's working very well, and it has worked very well since we passed it in this chamber two years ago. So I really have nothing more to add, because it was very clear when we passed those new FTAs through this chamber and when we brought the 2018 bill in. Again, as Senator Carr said, it was a simple administrative process, and it remains that.