Petro Georgiou (Kooyong, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, and now you are being unreasonable. So what has changed? What has changed is that I think you have lost sight of something that governments sometimes do lose sight of: the fact that there is a significance to the House that transcends momentary partisan interests. What you have done is to create a mess. I urgently request that you stop, that members of the government, on whom this will impact—it is not just us—stop. It will particularly impact on the Independents and it will impact on private members on this side of the House, but—do not frighten yourselves—it will actually impact on you as well, because it will lead to a degradation of the standards in this House. Just before concluding, I would like to say that I would like to believe that this was somebody’s smart idea that was not thought through, and that the government was willing to reconsider this.

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