Rowan Ramsey (Grey, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The minister heckles me, and he may well, because I might cut too close to the bone. But it may well be that these clauses are being pushed through the parliament just for the purposes of marketing.

In closing, it has become idiosyncratic of these last few weeks that I believe there are 103 bills before the parliament, and perhaps in excess of that. It is just so difficult to believe that due process can be applied to all those bills, because not only are we down to 9½ sitting days in this chamber but there are only eight in the other place. I think that, if we are moving legislation that ties Australia up for a number of years or until the government can find time to address many of the issues that this government has got wrong, it is a dangerous time for us to be shoving these bills through the parliament when there will be no right of recourse possibly until about the first week in November.

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