Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Isn't the difference, though, Minister, that, as is my understanding, the government is not supporting any of the Labor amendments—or is supporting a very small number of them at best—but it's the government that is choosing to back in crossbench amendments? So isn't it a little bit more relevant to have some idea of the cost of amendments that are going to pass with the government's support than of any other amendments that anyone might be moving that are going to go down? That's the issue.