Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

on indulgence—Briefly, I thank the minister for working so constructively with Senator Duniam in the other place, the member for Flinders in this place and me in the swift passage of this legislation, and we were happy to work constructively with the government. But I say this to the government: the next part is very difficult. Sitting down with the states and territories, as we have all done in ministerial positions in the past, can just descend into a talkfest, and ministers depart to their states and nothing happens. We cannot afford to have that this time. We still need a national worker register, consistent checks and personal devices banned in centres. We have to have the action that we have not seen from the states, and we as the opposition will not take a backward step in holding the government to account to do just that.

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