Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

I do need to make the point, on behalf of the opposition, that this is a government that came to power promising transparency and accountability, and they've been systematically finding opportunities to reduce the number of parliamentary sitting days on a repeated number of occasions, and they're doing it again. This is a reduction of four days of question time, to be replaced with just one. This is entirely inconsistent with what this government promised the Australian people—what the Labor Party promised the Australian people when they came to this place—and it's part of a dismal pattern of trying to avoid accountability, avoid scrutiny and, frankly, avoid turning up to work when they should be here.

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