Shayne Neumann (Blair, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will speak briefly on the issue of the Do Not Knock Register and say to my friend the member of Hindmarsh that I was a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs when we looked at the issue in great detail. I applaud the motives and the aspirations of the member for Hindmarsh, but we on the committee felt that it was premature to do this because of pending litigation. The competition and consumer legislation was passed only in the last few years and we thought it was time to give it an opportunity to operate and see how its provisions would impact not just on this area but other areas as well.

The member for Hindmarsh is an extremely capable and dedicated public servant and he is to be commended for raising this issue and for bringing this forward into the public domain. I thank him personally for advocating so fiercely on behalf of his constituents. I say to him: I do not think this is the end of the matter, but I look forward to some other day when he raises it yet again. I am sure he will be in my ear and the ear of many other parliamentarians about that. Thank you, Member for Hindmarsh.

Debate adjourned.

Federation Chamber adjourned at 18:24

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