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

Minister, I'd like to obtain some clarity with respect to that issue. What Senator Shoebridge outlined in terms of the technical operation of the amendments would conform with my understanding. Is it the case that the government was proposing particular amendments to those provisions through the initial iteration of the Administrative Review Tribunal amendment bill, but you've now decided to reverse that provision, and the amendments which the government is proposing are actually going to strip those provisions out of the amendment bill? That's the effect, as I read it, of the amendments on sheet GF100. So, to use a very complicated legal term, why did the government flip-flop?