The chairman of the States scrutiny panels, Senator Ted Vibert, said they decided yesterday that the proposals for a three per cent goods and services tax and for a immigration law should be subject to scrutiny.
However, although the politician who will take the proposed new immigration strategy to the States in April would welcome scrutiny of the proposals, he does not want to see unnecessary delay caused by the scrutiny process.
Policy and Resources president Senator Frank Walker said that he would be pleased if a States scrutiny panel conducted ‘evidence-based scrutiny’ of the proposition but added that if a panel were to look at the new proposed new law, then it needed to get on with it immediately.
But Senator Vibert said moves could be made to delay the debate on the new immigration law to allow time for scrutiny to take place.
