Senate debates

Tuesday, 1 December 2020

Bills

Australia's Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Bill 2020, Australia's Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020; In Committee

7:09 pm

Photo of Janet RiceJanet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Can I get more information as to how that has been addressed given that legal certainty? Although you say you're going to be issuing information that will inform people as to what sorts of things will be taken into account, to me the lack of a definition of foreign policy means that legal certainty is absolutely going to continue to exist. What will be done to overcome that? Will there, for example, be public guidelines issued—even if they change, even if it's new guidelines every couple of months—to say what foreign policy in Australia at the moment actually is?

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