Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Cormann and Senator Siewert. Sanctions will be applied based on what has occurred and not on what might occur in the future. I think that encapsulates the response to your amendment, Senator Siewert. I think that, once again, you are trying to identify a problem and fix it, but the amendments that have been moved in this bill are actually fixing the problem that we all identify. So sanctions will be applied based on what has occurred, not on what might occur. In fact, you would run the risk of being sent to the AAT if you were to do something like that. I think the intentions of all of us in the chamber are the same; it is about how we do it. I think that the amendments in the government’s bill will in fact achieve that outcome.