Senator SCHACHT (10:05 AM) —Now, for the first time, we have extra information provided. After three questions to the minister, he now mentions the WTO. But we are talking about domestic trade. As I understand it, the WTO is about international trade. How can you now raise that we have a problem with the WTO, Minister, when we are only talking about domestic trade? So we have knocked you over on the constitutional argument because there is no discrimination in our amendment between states or territories; it is about domestic trade. Now you are raising the WTO, but that is about international trade and this amendment is about domestic trade.

How can you raise the issue of the WTO, on the advice that you have got? Many people in this parliament as well as elsewhere in Australia will be staggered to hear that we cannot make decisions about our own domestic trade because it is in contravention of the WTO, which is an international trade arrangement.