Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I can do a lot of damage in one minute, Mr Acting Deputy President. I will commence and will continue my speech later. At this stage I cannot support this bill. I believe it is important to provide training pathways and support to help people find gainful employment. In that sense I support the intention of this bill and particularly its aim of linking social and environmental outcomes. They are laudable aims, but my fear is that this bill as it stands does not achieve those aims. Instead, it is missing essential, basic safeguards that would ensure both the protection of workers in the program and the outcomes the bill seeks to achieve.

Debate interrupted.