House debates

Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Questions without Notice

National Security

2:38 pm

Photo of Christian PorterChristian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

'Yep' was the answer; 'yep' was the interjection from the member for Cowan. She stands by those words, and why would she not? She said them clearly: 'This is not effective and not impactful legislation.' This is not a technical argument about whether an amendment from a committee was adopted in part or in full. This is a fulsome rejection of the critical importance of this bill. And what was even more astonishing was the reason given as to why this bill is not effective or impactful—

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