Jana Stewart (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise today to express my support for the Administrative Review Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025. Improving the efficiency of the Administrative Review Tribunal is an incredibly important issue for many people and also for me as the chair of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee. The Albanese Labor government is committed to merits review. It's a fundamental feature of our legal system. A quick, efficient and informal merits review improves government decision-making and helps build and maintain public confidence in our institutions. That is why we abolished the deeply, deeply dysfunctional Administrative Appeals Tribunal, after years of mismanagement by those opposite and political stacking by those opposite. The Albanese government inherited an outdated system with a significant backlog. But, unlike those opposite, we are a government that take action and—