Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I rise on behalf of the Liberal Party, the opposition, to speak on the Administrative Review Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025. Upfront, the Liberal Party will be supporting this bill. Why will we support it, though? Because, quite frankly, Australians deserve decisions that are made faster and that reduce backlogs, but, more than that, they deserve an administrative review system that is actually able to function in the real world.

Why has this bill been brought before this place? Interestingly, this is not the first time that an ART bill has been brought before this place. The reason this bill is here—I can't remember if it's number three now or number four—is that we are now in the aftermath of a complete policy wrecking exercise by former attorney-general Mark Dreyfus. In fact, I don't think there has ever been a minister in the history of government in Australia that has had to return to the chamber as many times as former attorney-general Mark Dreyfus, because the legislation that was originally put through was so egregious in terms of its fundamental flaws. But here we are again. Is this the last time? I honestly couldn't tell you.