Ross Cadell (NSW, National Party, Shadow Minister for Water) | Hansard source

I'll try my best! This is where we say, 'On this stuff, if you expect others to do it, do it yourself.' Don't bring legislation through that has consequences for people at their lowest. When they are getting divorced or when they have lost a loved one, have some compassion and get that right. Don't say, 'At an unknown time in the future, we will fix it,' because we don't know it will be fixed. We don't know it will be right. If you don't know what the effects are going to be this time, how will you know what the effects will be of what you bring forward next time? How do we know there won't be a deal between now and then, like we saw with the deal on superannuation with the Greens, that doesn't bring this forward?

It is not good enough to hurt people by omission. I know it wasn't the intention, but, when it was pointed out, it shouldn't have taken long to fix. An amendment could have been drafted. We heard today in question time that there is no time. They weren't able to name a time when a brief went out for the amendments. Don't hurt people. If you do the right thing at the get-go, we won't have this problem and this won't hurt people.