Nita Green (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

The government will not be supporting these amendments. The government maintains this power provides flexibility to respond to changes in migration case loads in a timely way. It is appropriately constrained to apply to temporary visa types and does not apply to protection visa matters. Removing the regulation-making power would undermine the effectiveness of these reforms. As a regulation, though, it is of course disallowable by parliament, as is appropriate.