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Thursday, 24 November 2011
Page: 9570


Senator ABETZ (TasmaniaLeader of the Opposition in the Senate) (17:39): And of course that makes out the point: why on earth are we throwing out 40 years of jurisprudence in relation to the test because every circumstance with this legislation is going to be hypothetical until such time as we get case studies and case law on the interpretation of this new regime locked in. I think I have made the point as much as I can in relation to that and the government clearly has a model bill from which it will not depart, irrespective of the strength of the logic of the arguments I put to them.

Question negatived.