Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

There are a range of amendments that we have before the Senate. I can't give you any commitment that we will support every aspect of the government's bill. The commitment we have given you is that we will sit down with you—and you gave the same commitment to us—and look at these issues. There are other amendments that we have before us. We can't give a commitment to the overall bill until we see the outcome of the discussion and debate in this committee process. But we certainly will support the propositions that are in our amendments that have been the subject of discussions between your office, my office and the shadow minister's office. I think it's a bit unfair, to be frank, to ask us to give you a commitment to the whole bill until we see what happens with the other amendments.