Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

Labor will not be supporting this amendment, for the reasons that I provided earlier. The government has allowed this entire bill to run up against the clock. There is a concern that, if amendments that are not acceptable to the government are made to this bill, it will cause the bill to be bounced back to the other place and bounced back here. The Labor Party does not intend to be responsible for jeopardising payments which are intended to commence—

Senator Patrick interjecting—