Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

What a visceral debate this has been. I think it started off with Senator Wong taunting Senator Bernardi while he was in the chair. I thought that was cruel and unusual punishment, and I think she acknowledges that. Senator Bernardi could not respond and was gagged, in a sense, by being in the chair. Thankfully I will never be in the chair, so that is something I do not have to worry about. To me, the issue is one of process—that is, not the whys and wherefores of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme—