Member

Amendment 422DA would deny the justiciability of the exercise of the proscription power. That is simply a denial of the rule of law. The challenge to the unlawful exercise of powers has become one of the most important safeguards of the rule of law in our democracy. These amendments are a direct attack on the courts upholding the rule of law in the face of unlawful decisions by the Executive. The principle that the Executive are not above the law needs protecting, and it should not be attacked in this Parliament.