David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Minister. I accept that, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to be saying, 'We'll come back and legislate, but we want this just to sit there potentially going forward.' Again, I accept the urgency of this, but when you're sitting in your office and you get amendments an hour before we're going to vote on what is a very important bill—and we don't have the underlying protections of a human rights act here in Australia. It's a fact. We should have one, but it hasn't happened. So what is the guarantee that some of these provisions won't just linger in law?