Senate debates Bills
Criminal Code Amendment (Cluster Munitions Prohibition) Bill 2010; In Committee
David Feeney Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence
12:46 pm
Because the bill is designed to give effect to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and so the bill keeps faith with the convention. What we are now talking about is a question of policy that goes above and beyond the convention. The government obviously has a firm view, a view that should give you comfort, that I think is aligned with your own view, but that is a matter of policy. It is not something that is required or sought in the convention itself.
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