Kevin Hogan (Page, National Party, Shadow Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I second the amendment moved by the Manager of Opposition Business. Before I go to the motion and what we are debating here today, I want to raise the issue that this government, when elected, talked a lot on the issue of transparency and integrity—two important things—but what we've seen from this new government from the day it came into power is this guillotining. This is a gag. Make no doubt about what this is: this is guillotining and gagging debate on this very serious issue. This is what we're talking about.

For a government that said they ran on integrity and transparency, there is a great irony about that. This isn't the first bill.

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