In some cases the law will be unworkable . The police will have to do the lot. Many of my constituents are shooters. The government has not thought it through because the bill was conceived in emotion, in a sense of political expediency and political funk . That is the worst basis on which to draft legislation.
Good legislation is simple.
This is not, by any definition, simple legislation, and the government should be held accountable for that. However, a letter from the Shooting Sports Council of Victoria states that after the second reading of the bill on 31 October copies of the bill and the second-reading speech were not available to enable its members to have an input. The council complained that the bill was badly drafted and unworkable in the way it was presented to Parliament. I hope the council's fears do not come to pass because the bill should be workable. I urge the minister while the bill is between here and the other place to look at his amendments and to take on board the comments from members of various organisations who have had an input so that the legislation will be workable.