Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I note no denial of a deal with the Greens. Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that Labor and the Greens have controlled the numbers in the Senate for the last three years and also controlled the preparation and scheduling of legislation, does the Leader of the Government in the Senate accept any responsibility at all for allowing the situation to arise where 55 important bills are to be guillotined through the Senate in just 57½ hours of sittings? That is almost twice as many in one week as the coalition had in three years.