Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Well, I don't think that's necessarily an unusual way of doing things. Quite often we develop legislation, and then that legislation is amended after further discussions with MPs and senators. So, in that respect, this is a very unsurprising amendment. It happens regularly. It happened when you were in government. It will continue to happen, particularly when you are in a minority chamber where the government can't act alone. We have to work across the chamber. We try to work collegiately as much as we can in this place. This is just another example of that.