Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the clarification he provided to the House yesterday when he said that, at the time of the election—‘at that stage’—he had no intention of reducing the number of allowable matters. At exactly what stage did the Prime Minister decide to reduce the number of allowable matters? Did it happen to be at the stage that he got majority control of the Senate and at the same time he decided to remove the rights of young people to vote, remove disclosure of large political donations, remove the rights of members to speak on and debate amendments to bills, close down Senate committees and rort Hansard? Prime Minister, isn’t this a systematic display of arrogance and avoidance of scrutiny?

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