Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I will repeat myself because I am sure nobody would have heard what I was saying because of the rabble over there. Unlike the Leader of the Government in the Senate, who wasted 15 minutes of our debating time on a wildly inaccurate political speech, I intend to make my contributions very short. I think the amendment proposed by Senator Parry is the appropriate one and should be supported. I point out that Senator Evans’s justification for making us sit 24 hours a day without meal breaks for as long as it takes—and that seems to be the position of the ‘workers’ party’—is that this requires urgent action. I point out the hypocrisy of that with the government’s own legislation not wanting this scheme to take effect—