Senate debates
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (WELFARE PAYMENT REFORM) BILL 2007; NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE BILL 2007; FAMILIES, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2007; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008
Second Reading
6:02 pm
Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
We do not accept the Democrats minor amendment to this very important amendment to the second reading. We believe that a six-week delay in this legislation is absolutely what the nation wants, in particular the First Australians. The amendment is to allow that delay so that we can look at the Northern Territory’s legislated response and at the enormous faults, some of them constitutional, some of them infringements of international—
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