Thankfully because the government didn't want to get steamrolled on an asylum seeker bill, this bill didn't get rushed through today (which is the last sitting day of the year). So we get more time for it to simmer until next year...<p>Which is great, because trying to rush it through was a farce. My favorite part is where there were 170 amendments made and published only at 9:30AM today with the debate/vote on the issue only 3 hours later. And it wasn't the only topic of discussion. Meaning basically no one would have read let alone understood or considered all of the amendments.<p>I know the USA had a similar situation recently, passing some new controversial bill with several hundred pages of unread amendments (I can't remember which it was, but it wasn't long ago)<p>I really wish that kind of process was outlawed (har har). These processes should generally ensure people have had adequate time to read an consider all changes, amendments, etc.<p>Of course the Australian government continually tried to side step normal due process this month, specifically calling to skip over normal process.<p>The whole thing disgusts me, regardless of how good an idea you think the general scheme is or not (spoiler alert I don't think it's a good idea, but even if you did, the details can really matter and shouldn't be rushed).<p>Some more details from the sizzle:
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