Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

If there were ever evidence of bias in the chair, it is direct participation in the debate. I have to say that what we have seen today—the claim that I cannot reflect on the chair during a dissent motion—is a ruling that begs a dissent motion, because what we are in is a situation where it is impossible to move a dissent motion without reflecting on your ruling. What you have illustrated in that is exactly the level of bias that shows why we should have been given the call, why the government should not be allowed to get away with the games that they are playing, and why Labor is the only group of people who are standing up for pensioners in this debate.

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