Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I am not going to labour the point here. You are quite right, the Senate committee did take quite strong evidence from the groups that I named and from a number of others who strenuously opposed the bill and proposed amendments that the government does not appear to be very interested in, but by the time it gets to the Senate committee the government has already made up its mind. It is certainly out there looking, potentially, at amendments but the model has already been set—that we are going to get a site-blocking regime.

Can I take from your answers that either senior officers of the Attorney-General's Department or the minister himself had not met with any of those rights organisations that I mentioned before?