I am disappointed the Government has not come up with a firm reason that it cannot accept the Bill. The various Government speakers expressed the wish that legislation be brought forward in this area. It would have been opportune for them to accept and amend the Bill if they felt amendments were necessary. Each day the House takes the Committee and Report Stages of Bills, many of which are amended in some way. I have not heard an argument from the Government that the Bill is fatally flawed. If the Government has difficulties with the Bill, Senator Higgins would be more than open to amendments to it. The manner in which the Government has dismissed the Bill out of hand is not good enough.