Senate debates

Friday, 16 June 2023

Bills

Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023; In Committee

9:12 pm

Photo of Michaelia CashMichaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

What is the government's intention? This starts to get into the legal issues and the potential obstruction when it comes to a government being able to make decisions, because, as everybody whom I know who has dealt with administrative law incredibly well knows, and I know Senator Carr knows this, once you have walked into the area of administrative law, you are now talking about delay—delay to the functioning of government. So I ask you again: at law, is a decision about whether to make representation on an issue a matter that can be litigated under administrative law?

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