House debates

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Bills

Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2020-2021; Consideration in Detail

12:39 pm

Photo of Bill ShortenBill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

I have a question through you, Deputy Speaker Bird, to the minister. Traditionally, consideration is like a kabuki play, where we each go for our ceremonial five minutes; we say the government's bad and the government then takes five minutes saying it's good—

Mr Robert interjecting

Unless the minister has had a Damascene conversion!

What I was going the say to the minister is: if we skip the five minutes of ritual government bashing and instead just ask very direct and short questions, will the minister, in the same spirit, not chew up five minutes with recited government whatever, so we can have a decent discussion?

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