Paul Scarr (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Multicultural Engagement) Share this | Hansard source

I'm not sure if there's a doppelganger giving a speech in another place who said the words that the minister attributed to me, but I don't think I acknowledged that the previous government had stacked the AAT—quite the contrary. If it was stacked, it was stacked with members who actually performed quite well in relation to the objective KPIs which I'm referring to in the course of this debate.

Minister, I do want to go to some of the particulars of the bill, and I do acknowledge that this bill doesn't fall within your bailiwick as a minister, so you may well need to get some advice from those members of the department and advisers who are there to assist you and who are, no doubt, hanging on my first question. If I can take you to schedule 4, item 2, from my perspective, as I understand it, this item is dealing with a very serious unintended consequence arising from the introduction of the Administrative Review Tribunal Bill. Can I ask you the reason for that proposed amendment?