Penny Allman-Payne (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, in the debate around the motion moved by Senator David Pocock to split the bill, you commented that statements made by the crossbench about the lack of scrutiny were unfounded because there had been briefings given on the bill. You've also just now said that ACOSS and EJA weren't engaged in a consultation but were 'spoken to'. Minister, is it your assertion, and the government's assertion, that giving crossbenchers briefings—which we all know are one-way processes, where the department tells us what the government is going to do—and speaking to ACOSS and EJA is the level of scrutiny to which the bill has been subjected? Is it your assertion that that amounts to scrutiny?