Page 1011 - Week 04 - Thursday, 7 May 2020
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MR RATTENBURY: I move amendments Nos 1 to 3 circulated in my name together [see schedule 1 at page 1034]. I table a supplementary explanatory statement to the amendments. Just briefly, as I mentioned earlier, these are largely technical amendments. They seek to highlight the origin of the provisions and link them clearly to international law so that in the interpretation process there is a clear chain and clear connection to the international precedence and origins of these sorts of provisions.
Amendments agreed to.
Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
Paper
Mr Gentleman presented the following paper:
Bimberi Youth Justice Centre—Copy of letter to the Discrimination, Disability, Health and Community Services Commissioner responding to the Commission Initiated Review of Allegations, dated 7 May 2020.
Executive business—precedence
Ordered that executive business be called on.
Standing orders—suspension
Motion (by Mr Gentleman) agreed to, with the concurrence of an absolute majority:
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the COVID-19 Emergency Response Legislation Amendment Bill 2020 being called on and debated forthwith.
COVID-19 Emergency Response Legislation Amendment Bill 2020
Debate resumed.
MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (4.32): The opposition recognises the urgency of the legislation that is before us today. I thank the government for giving us more notice for this piece of legislation than they did for last month’s piece of legislation. Generally speaking, I think this is a better bill. It looks to me to be reasonably sound and strike the right balances.
Of course, there is still close monitoring and scrutiny that is going to apply to this piece of legislation and to how it is carried out by the government. But we do recognise the urgency and the importance and the need for this sort of power in these extraordinary times. As I have said before, extraordinary times require extraordinary
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