Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

These three bills are bills that the Greens thought should be referred. We do not believe that these bills should be dealt with in this way, not being reviewed by the broader committees in this parliament, because the Greens want an opportunity to be involved in the inquiry into these bills. Doing it this way locks out the Greens from being involved in inquiries into these bills. We believe they require broader scrutiny, so we're disappointed that the government has moved to not refer these. We couldn't reach agreement on these, but we will not call a division; we just want our deep concern registered that these bills have not been referred to the appropriate committees.