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Senator JOYCE (Leader of the Nationals in the Senate) (9:35 AM)
—I seek leave to move an amendment to the motion.
Leave granted.
Senator JOYCE
—I move:
After paragraph (i), insert:
(j) investigate any ambiguity in the Water Act 2007 which may prevent the delivery of a triple bottom line of economic, social and environmental outcomes; and
The amendment I have circulated is to investigate any ambiguities in the Water Act. I seek leave to make a brief statement.
The PRESIDENT
—Leave is granted for two minutes.
Senator JOYCE
—In the meetings that we are going to there is a sense that somehow the parliament has in a fashion deliberately and mischievously created an ambiguity. I think it is vitally important that we show the Australian people that in this parliament, in this Senate, we are trying to hide nothing. We have got no problems with anything being investigated. They wanted it explicitly stated and I gave an explicit commitment that I would do it. I think this is a good way to honour that commitment. The Labor Party believes there is no ambiguity in the act. I know the Australian Government Solicitor’s response said there is no ambiguity in the act. But I think it is extremely important that we show ourselves to be transparent and decisive in how we address this issue in this inquiry. Adding this section will do that.