Rex Patrick (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I want to indicate that I'll be supporting the Greens amendment to the motion. It is important that we protect the small players. The government's amendment basically allows the Treasurer not to make a designation in circumstances where some of the players are happy. The minister can't define what 'significant contribution' means. That leaves this chamber with great ambiguity, and, in those circumstances, the chamber should act to protect the smaller players.

I'd also foreshadow, in the event that Labor, for example, doesn't want to support the Greens amendment, that another way to remedy this situation is to return the bill to the position it was when—as I understand it, based on conversations around this building and the committee report—people were supporting it. Removing item (1) on sheet PG138 is a possibility. I would ask the chamber that when we put this to a vote item (1) be voted on separately to items (2) through (5).