Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

Labor will not be supporting these or the remaining amendments. We believe that Senator Murray’s initial amendments relating to nuclear facilities effectively encapsulated the view put forward by Labor in our second reading amendment, but these other amendments do not. Our policies and approach to a form of cooperative federalism, we believe, will lead to great benefits, through working together with local communities and effectively empowering them, along with the general right of the AEC to conduct plebiscites. But, for the purposes of the remaining debate, we will not be supporting these amendments.