George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition supports these amendments. Once again these are amendments inspired by the recommendations of the Liberal senators on the inquiry by the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs into the bill. They protect, by recognition, explicitly the status of marriage and they abandon the clinical description of children as products of a relationship. But for the work of those Liberal senators, these amendments would not be being moved this evening, which indicates, as I said earlier, the significance and benefit of the process of committee hearings on which the Senate resolves.