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

The irony in following the member for Dawson giving a speech about extremists is not lost on me. This bill that is in front of us, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Standing) Bill 2015, is dumb legislation introduced to the parliament for dumb reasons. I was not going to speak in this debate, but—

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