David Leyonhjelm (NSW, Liberal Democratic Party) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I am wondering if you can help us with an explanation. I am assuming that you are not in favour of these amendments, which are identical to the ones I moved, yet I cannot see that there is anything harmful about them—in fact, they improve the bill. Amendment (1) confines the kinds of information defined in the bill to those brought into the bill on the recommendation of the PJCIS, so it reduces the scope for regulatory creep. Amendment (4) does away with the elaborate 40-day approval regime for new additions introduced into the bill thanks to the PJCIS, and I am not suggesting that the 40-day approval is not an improvement on what was there before. Can you elaborate why you do not find them acceptable.