Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Special Minister of State) Share this | Hansard source

which have been circulated. They are sensible amendments which you could take up now; they would add some meat to this legislation. Apparently, you had amendments yesterday afternoon. Did you have the courtesy, Minister, to let the shadow minister know about those amendments? Did you bother to pick up the phone and say, ‘Here are the amendments’? Did you bother to include Mr Billson in this process to make it better? Why didn’t you pick up the phone, Minister, and tell him that you had some amendments and then have some discussion with him? Why don’t you make everyone part of this process to make it work? If you were serious about helping those who will benefit from this sort of infrastructure, wouldn’t you want the best outcome? And wouldn’t the best outcome be to use the Senate committee system? Wouldn’t the best outcome be to use an opposition that have quite clearly said to you, ‘We are prepared to facilitate this process’? Wouldn’t you do that?