Senate debates

Tuesday, 14 August 2018

Motions

Multiculturalism

4:31 pm

Photo of Penny WongPenny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I can indicate—and this may have been indicated by Senator Chisolm previously—that, in fact, the only issue the Labor Party has concerns about is the commitment to a federal multicultural act. We invited the Greens to amend the motion to reflect that; we understand that was not agreed to. I invite Senator Di Natale to do so. If he does so, the Labor Party can vote in favour of this paragraph. We have previously stood against changes to the antidiscrimination legislation, and obviously we support the Australian multicultural community, so we would certainly invite Senator Di Natale to remove the single part that the Labor Party cannot support. I understand from—

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