Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—There are a couple of points to be raised here, and one of them is that the government set the schedule this year with the fewest sitting weeks we have had for some time, which is hard to explain. The second critical point is that the amount of time and taxpayers’ money the Greens waste in this chamber is outrageous to say the least. They stand up and say more time should be spent on private members’ business—I agree with that, but they waste time and taxpayers’ money in this chamber, and it should not be allowed to occur the way it does.