Sophie Scamps (Mackellar, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

S () (): I, too, would like to support the member for Fowler's amendments. We're having a big debate at the moment about voice and about people being heard. What we've had here this morning is asking for people's communities' voices to be heard. We've heard that for rural and regional Australia. We've heard it from the member for North Sydney, for communities to be heard. Now we're hearing it from the member for Fowler, for multicultural communities to be heard. This is essentially about our communities having a voice and having a say in these nationally important decisions. What is happening here is that we are asking for there to be greater transparency and greater inclusion of these different communities in our own society. I commend the bill to the House.

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