Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

The government will be supporting these amendments. I note details of the SmartCard contracts, including their total value, are already available through AusTender, but we welcome the opportunity to provide more clarity. The other amendment would provide for regular mandatory review and report by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights. The committee regularly engages with this matter and I note that its Human rights scrutiny report 4 of 2023 included scrutiny of the income management reform bill and sought the minister's advice on a number of the provisions. The minister provided a response to the committee on 18 April 2023. Further, the instruments made under this bill are disallowable by both chambers of this parliament, which will provide plenty of opportunity for scrutiny and debate.

Question agreed to.