Senate debates Bills

Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Bill 2020, Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Bill 2020, Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2019-2020, Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2019-2020; In Committee


Mathias Cormann

Mathias Cormann WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council

9:29 pm

The reason this power is in this legislation, and a similar power is in the legislation that we passed last time, is to give ourselves flexibility to deal with a continuously evolving situation. But, of course, once we return back to normal, we would return back to the normal processes of parliament.

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