Page 1613 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 14 May 2019

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Clause 164, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 165 to 179, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Part 2.9, heading, agreed to.

Clause 180 agreed to.

Proposed new clause 180A.

MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (5.27): I move amendment No 47 circulated in my name, which inserts a new clause 180A [see schedule 1 at page 1639]. As previously discussed, this amendment provides individuals with the option of selecting their income payments in a lump sum.

Amendment negatived.

Proposed new clause 180A negatived.

Clauses 181 and 182, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 183.

MR BARR (Kurrajong—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Social Inclusion and Equality, Minister for Tourism and Special Events and Minister for Trade, Industry and Investment) (5.28): I move amendment No 37 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 1655]. This amendment inserts internally reviewable decisions from the draft regulation. As well as including a schedule specifically for internally reviewable decisions to the bill, the government amendment also inserts a regulation-making power to ensure that any further matters that arise may be included as an internally reviewable decision.

MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (5.29): I obviously will not move my amendment 48, given that it is likely that Mr Barr’s amendment will get up. We are of the view that the reviewable decisions are those listed under the act, with their schedules consequentially created. Obviously, that is not going to get up; therefore, we support the government’s amendment. However, it still does not encompass everything it should.

MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (5.30): The Greens also support the government amendment. We do not have a strong view as to whether the reviewable decisions are listed in the regulation or the primary act. There was an issue with how the Liberals drafted their amendment. I understand it changed certain decisions to be internally reviewable when previously they were not. The government has pointed out

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