Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Van for the question. The advice I have is that we were doing a consultation process on the design of an exposure draft piece of legislation. That indicates to me that it would be difficult to get legislation passed through this parliament before the federal election is due in May, as an exposure draft usually takes some time. But if that's incorrect, I will come back to the chamber.

As I understand it, there's going to be a consultation process. There's going to be advice going out about the design of the proposed approach to feed into an exposure draft. There are only a short number of weeks left, in February and March. I don't have the sitting calendar in front of me, but it would seem that, if we're to have a proper consultation process on an exposure draft, that would prevent that— (Time expired)