Senate debates

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Bills

Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2017; In Committee

11:48 pm

Photo of Mathias CormannMathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

As I have indicated before, it is the job of the government to seek to reach consensus across a majority of senators in order to get the government's agenda through. We do not have a majority in our own right. We were very grateful that we were able to reach an agreement with the Nick Xenophon Team, the One Nation team and other senators in support of the government's reasonable savings in order to pay for very important childcare reforms.

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