Andrew Leigh (Fenner, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Treasury) Share this | Hansard source

It's extraordinary that the minister gave no reasons why the House should support this amendment. The minister has moved an amendment but said nothing in favour of it. The House declined to give leave for the amendments to be considered together. They need to be considered separately. We're taking that attitude because the government has consistently moved the Leader of the Opposition be no longer heard, and so on that basis it's up to the government to actually argue for things they believe in, rather than hope that the parliament will assent to amendments which simply have no government backing.

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