Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

I indicate that the Democrats will support this amendment. No target has actually been suggested in this amendment. I think we probably could put a target in fairly quickly. Two or three per cent is doable by 2010 by all accounts, and we could probably say five per cent by 2012 or so. However, we do support the idea of establishing that target. But the point that the government needs to hear is that this all needs to happen quickly. We certainly support the establishment of a task force of experts to do it, but you would want to make sure that they started their work on Monday week or so in order to get this going.