Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

Temporary Chair, I seek clarification as to whether 8432 won't be proceeded with and 8434 is replacing it. It looks as though there are common elements to 8434 and 8432.

The TEMPORARY CHAIR: Minister, 8432 replaces a set of amendments that were never moved, which were described on sheet 8373. So, to assist the chamber, we ought to ignore 8373. Senator Hanson-Young has just mentioned amendments which I assume are described on sheet 8432. So that's the contemporary set before us. The senator has circulated in the chamber amendments that are described on sheet 8434, which it is her intention to move, and she has foreshadowed that there will be a further set of amendments circulated. So we'll be dealing with three sets. If we can just treat them in order—

On my quick examining of the two, 8432 looks to be a subset of 8434. So 8434 has some amendments which are the same as 8432, but 8343 has what 8432 has plus further amendments. So is 8434 ultimately going to replace 8432?

The TEMPORARY CHAIR: Senator Hanson-Young.