Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

A very brief preamble, Mr Deputy Speaker. Of course the government would like to get on with things that I thought the Labor Party were interested in. I thought they were interested in vulnerable workers, and that is the next bill that we are supposed to be debating here today—protections for vulnerable workers. But Labor does not want to talk about that. They would rather this ridiculous distraction. We want to know what the Leader of the Opposition's position is on the corrupting benefits legislation as well. We want to get to the corrupting benefits legislation because the Leader of the Opposition is yet to say what his position is on the corrupting benefits legislation. So we will draw a curtain on this amusing pantomime from the Labor Party this morning. I move:

That the motion be put.

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