Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Even on the issue it attempts to solve—government spending—it does nothing. A debt ceiling does not commit the government to a dollar in savings. It does not change how much the country is borrowing or what we are spending it on. It is a feel-good act of symbolism, and a redundant one at that. I have spoken about it for a minute, and I can assure you that it does not even deserve that.