Last night, we told you about how the Senate was getting ready to finally table a report resulting from the 13-month-long Senate hearings on Immigration, which ended in December 2017.
Viewers heard the Chairman of the Senate Special Select Committee, Senator Aldo Salazar, explained that he completed a final draft of the report some 5 months ago. He handed it over to the other senators who sat on the committee, and since then, several the social partner senators hadn't finish perusing it to indicate whether they were in full support of the findings or not.
That meant that the Senate would have had to settle for tabling a minority report on those hearings.
7News has learned this evening, that tomorrow's minority report has now become the majority report. That means that the Committee's findings on immigration will be concluded tomorrow with the tabling of this report.
We are told that Business Senator Mark Lizarraga gave his support for the first draft. Labour Senator Elena Smith also gave her approval after making minor changes to the report. The Social Partner senators have all signed off, but the only member of the Special Select Committee who isn't showing support for this majority report is the PUP's Senator Michel Chebat.
We'll be at tomorrow's Senate meeting, and we'll tell you what the final report says.
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