Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

The government will not be supporting the amendments moved by the Labor Party. I take it that the comments made by Senator Stott Despoja were statements rather than questions, so I will not directly respond to those—and, having listened to the comments that she made, I would say that essentially I would be giving her the same answers that she has received before. Whether she was satisfied with them or not at that stage, I suspect that she would get the same response now. So I will just indicate that we will not be supporting the amendments.