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Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Page: 3458


Senator FIFIELD (Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) (12:39 PM) —The opposition clearly appreciates the intention and objective of Senator Hanson-Young’s amendments. We do have great sympathy with the objective. However, as there is no realistic prospect of the government accepting such amendments in the House we will be declining to support the amendments because, as I have indicated before, we do not wish to frustrate the passage of this legislation. Although not perfect, it is a step in the right direction and we do not want to thwart that.

Question put:

That the requests (Senator Hanson-Young’s) be agreed to.