Josh Wilson (Fremantle, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

Labor will be supporting this amendment. It picks up one of a number of improvements in this space, and there are some amendments to come that achieve a similar end—and that's essentially to ensure that, where there is an exemption to the new export licence framework, there's proper transparency about why that exemption is being granted. The assistant minister, in the engagement we had with the government, made some points about striking the balance between, on the one hand, transparency and, on the other hand, some of the unintended consequences that might occur if information about exemptions was made available too widely or in an unhelpful way. I think, in the end, the changes that have been made do strike that balance. It is important that, where there are exemptions to this new export ban framework, people in the community and people in the industry can see why they have been granted, and that's why we will be supporting this amendment.

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