Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

It was by Senator Henderson during debate in the other place yesterday on a motion to disallow a regulation. Senator Henderson referred to a report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, of which I'm the deputy chair. She referred to the 'finding of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights in relation to these regulations and the bipartisan position that was taken in assessing the human rights implications of this regulation'. Senator Henderson misrepresented my personal position in relation to the consideration of that instrument. The Labor members actually said that the fees would be a deterrent to applicants and that the fee hike would prevent, in a real and practical sense, access to justice for those litigants. The position of all members of the committee was not bipartisan, as indicated from Senate Henderson—far from it.

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