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

Like Senator Williams, I have a very keen interest in the Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2011 Measures No. 1) Bill 2011. The bill is one that relates to facts and what reality is all about. If I might slightly digress by saying: I just cannot understand how a political party can have a particular approach to actions—like a political party that might have an approach to plebiscites and getting the views of various people on issues like this legislation. But I am aware that Family First, for example, had a very strong policy in favour of consultation, of plebiscites, of getting the ideas of other people, and that is why—