Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Thank you very much Madam Chair. I note that the Government has already dropped its own Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) on to the floor of the House SOP 100. In fact the Government had an SOP on the floor of the House before the Opposition did. That's how poorly and shambolic this process is. So I suppose my question is to the Minister Michael Wood: what is the purpose of SOP 100? And if he could enlighten the House as to how that missed out the bill drafting process? And you know if it's OK with us it'd be good to know what the other SOPs are that are coming down the line if indeed there are any further amendments.One in particular that I'm looking for that we didn't get an answer from the Minister in the chair before in relation to is again I go back to why the legislative statement that's been tabled makes reference to the Director-General of the Ministry for Primary Industries. It's a genuine question. Why is that person mentioned in the legislative statement when it's not in the bill? So we look forward to finding out exactly what's happened there; something's gone awry there.But of course this is what happens when Parliament is put into urgency to pass a bill through all stages. I'm going to make a prediction now. I'll make a prediction: we will be back at some point in the next six months to fix up this bill. There's just no doubt about it. I mean the COVID-19 Response (Management Measures) Legislation Bill I understand needs fixing as well. That's the one that we only passed two weeks ago and we made a mistake in passing that too.So anyway a further question is a very genuine question and I asked it before and we haven't had an answer yet. But I want to know what particular part of the bill allows the Government to make rules in relation to vaccination mandates for specified workers. And I'm reading from an article in which the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety Michael Wood is quoted this morning—in fact it's based largely on a press release that he issued—which is that unvaccinated staff and businesses where vaccine mandates will not be able to continue their work unless they are fully vaccinated against COVID 19 by 17 January. The Government on Tuesday set out new requirements for workers to be vaccinated at businesses where customers need to show My Vaccine Pass under the new traffic light system. Makes perfect sense in some ways. If you have to be vaccinated to enter the business you have to be vaccinated to work at the businesses; that make sense. It brings things into line. It's the logical corollary of having a vaccine certificate system for some businesses. The question is just this: where is the provision in the bill that allows the Government to make rules regarding that? That's fundamental—that's critical. The Government put out a press release about it this morning and has made much of those requirements. And I may be missing something here the Government may be relying on clause 6 which is the new section 11—well section 7 which is amended—but I can't see it in the legislation. We've got the shadow Attorney-General here Mr Penk. He may want to comment on that as well but I can't see it. And so it's a genuine question from officials as to what is the empowering provision in the legislation?A final further question before I hand over to other colleagues is in relation to the risk assessment framework. Now again we had a press release from the Minister this morning saying Don't worry about it guys. There's a risk assessment framework coming Parliament will legislate for one when it comes to businesses making up their minds as to who needs to be vaccinated and who doesn't. It's all under control. Don't worry we'll publish the regulations in mid-December." And of course this has all been done very very hurriedly.Hon Member: Another announcement of an announcement.CHRIS BISHOP: Well yeah exactly. Another announcement of an announcement. And there's no constitutional problem with Parliament passing an empowering provision to allow the Government to pass regulations obviously. But it is a bit unusual that the Parliament would give the Government the power to promulgate something and put out a press release simultaneously on the same day without getting any real indication as to what will be in the framework. That is slightly unusual. And so I suppose one real question is: would it be better for the risk assessment framework to actually be in the primary legislation? In fact that is a really genuine question: why the risk assessment framework is not actually in the primary legislation."