Page 446 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 16 February 2016

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deal with the often hateful rhetoric which will come from it. The federal government needs to get its act together and simply pass the important legislation and maybe consider investing $158 million into a project that will help, not hinder, the mental wellbeing of the LGBTI community.

Discussion concluded.

Workers Compensation Amendment Bill 2015

Debate resumed.

Detail stage

Clauses 1 to 3, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 4.

MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Minister for Planning and Land Management, Minister for Racing and Gaming and Minister for Workplace Safety and Industrial Relations) (4.18): Pursuant to standing order 182A(c), I seek leave to move together amendments to this clause that are in response to comments made by the scrutiny committee.

Leave granted.

MR GENTLEMAN: I move amendments Nos 1 to 4 circulated in my name together and table a supplementary explanatory statement to the government amendments [see schedule 2 at page 455].

Amendments agreed to.

Clause 4, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 5.

MR SMYTH (Brindabella) (4.19): I will be opposing the clause.

MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Minister for Planning and Land Management, Minister for Racing and Gaming and Minister for Workplace Safety and Industrial Relations) (4.18): Pursuant to standing order 182A(b) and 178A, I seek leave to move an amendment to this clause that is minor and technical in nature and was not circulated in advance.

Leave granted.

MR GENTLEMAN: I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name and table supplementary explanatory statement No 2 [see schedule 3 at page 455].


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