Senate debates Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Disallowance Power of the Commonwealth) Bill 2006
Second Reading
Ian Macdonald Queensland, Liberal Party
5:31 pm
I am being attacked by Senator Brown in the course of my speech, and it has distracted me. Certainly, his speech was very short. When we are trying to get important legislation through the parliament, Senator Brown speaks not only for 20 minutes in the second reading debate but for the maximum allowable time in the committee stage. Back in the days when we were introducing the regional forest agreement legislation, Senator Brown detained the chamber for 48 hours—was it, Senator Brown?
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