David Fawcett SA, Liberal Party
5:13 pm
Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present the report of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee into the provisions of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment (Defence Force) Bill 2016, the report of the Senate Economics Legislation Committee into the provisions of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Bill 2017 and the Diverted Profits Tax Bill 2017 and the report of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee into the provisions of the Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017, together with the Hansard records of proceedings and documents presented to the committee.
Ordered that the reports be printed.
Rachel Siewert WA, Australian Greens
I seek leave to make a one-minute statement on one of those reports. I will not be debating the actual report.
Peter Whish-Wilson Tasmania, Australian Greens
Leave is granted for one minute.
Rachel Siewert WA, Australian Greens
I note that the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee report on the Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017 has just been tabled. I want to put on record the Greens' significant concern about the rushed nature of this inquiry. I raised it at the time of the selection of bills committee report, which we debated the last day we were here back at the beginning of March, and I have in fact been proved to be correct. The amount of time has been insufficient for us to be able to adequately look at the ramifications of this bill. I will not, as I promised, go into the issues of the bill—which we will do during the debate, when the government rushes that bill in here—but there are significant potential ramifications of this bill that we simply have not had time to address. It is really inappropriate. (Time expired)