Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Madam Chair. I'm pleased to take a call on Part 1 of the Social Security Legislation Rewrite Bill and add my voice to counter some of the assertions that have been made by the Opposition. I think the assertion has been made that it's inappropriate to bring back such a large Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) to the House without public scrutiny. I want to add my voice to the view that actually select committees listen to the evidence ideally and make changes. We don't have an iterative process of the committee making those changes and then sending it back to the public for their view. That is not how our process works.What this SOP represents is actually an accurate reflection of the submissions opposed to the bill that came back from the committee that represented the National majority on that committee who refused to listen to the submissions and the views that were coming to us. The member Louise Upston on that side is shaking her head—though she wasn't on the committee strangely enough whereas I actually heard the evidence and I know what's come back and what we were told. I believe that this bill in the SOP form is a much fairer reflection of what people presented to us as well as what the Government's stated intent on the introduction of the bill was which was a policy-neutral rewrite of the legislation and that is what we are delivering and debating in this House today.So to ensure it was policy neutral the point in Part 1 is that the Government with the support of the Green Party has removed the additional principle that the National Party wanted to add to the Social Security Act. The principle provided that and I'll quote to help achieve the best possible outcome for people at risk of long-term welfare dependency" and that that is defined as "an indefinite period not been able to obtain full-time employment;". So let's unpack that for a second. "Indefinite period"—that could be three months as long as you don't have a defined end-date on when you're going back to work; that could be two months and you're deemed to be at risk of long-term welfare dependence because you're not able to put a date on when you're going back to work and that is obtaining full-time employment. I do need to say that many of the submissions that we heard in the Social Services Committee came from people who were working with or who did have disabilities who were telling us very clearly that by that definition they would fit the definition of being "dependent" and that this would be characterising them as a burden on our society.We heard from a previous speaker Alfred Ngaro that this is entirely consistent with the original 1964 legislation except that it also said that work was important. Everyone believes that work for those who are able to work is important. There is no disagreement with that. But the 1964 legislation said clearly that one of their principles was: "people for whom work is not appropriate should be supported in accordance with this Act." That was based on the idea that every single person in this country should be able to live in dignity regardless of whether they are able to participate in the paid workforce. We all have things to contribute and we all have value regardless—versus this view that is saying that if you're not able to be in full-time employment for any certain time period then you are dependent you are at risk or you are long-term welfare dependent and a burden on us as a society.This is what the submitters raised with us as a concern and the Green Party supports that concern and we are very pleased to see this come out. We are also pleased to see it come out for other reasons that have been just briefly touched on which is that it is an embedding of the social investment approach. Again the previous speaker for National seemed to have a bit of confusion—well he was accusing the Government member of having confusion about the regulatory impact statement. There is no regulatory impact statement for this Supplementary Order Paper because there is no new—[Time expired]"