In my post the other day, about the progress of our latest effort at competition law reform, I noted that the Select Committee dealing with it had reported unanimously supporting a range of law amendments, but apparently not unanimously supporting the overall Bill.
Turns out that in fact the committee was unanimous about the Bill and the initial statement that it had been passed "by majority" was a mistake by the Committee. Last Thursday it updated the record here and now says:
"In our final report to the House, we recommended, by majority, that the bill be passed, with all amendments recommended unanimously. This was incorrectly recorded and does not accurately reflect the committee’s resolutions. We wish to correct our recommendation to the following:
The Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee has examined the Commerce (Promoting Competition and Other Matters) Amendment Bill and recommends that it be passed. We recommend all amendments unanimously".
At one level this is all just technical detail. More substantively, however, it does raise the probability that the unanimous view of the Committee will in fact carry through to the final form of the legislation.
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