Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I am very concerned about what is going on here. When this was reported last week, it was put in the paper that the government would support this committee, on condition that the crossbench voted to delete one of the other Senate committees. We cannot have longstanding procedures of the Senate and understandings of the Senate compromised in this way. We simply cannot do that.

Honourable senators interjecting—