Cory Bernardi (SA, Australian Conservatives) Share this | Hansard source

then that is all good and well. But, as Senator Lambie has just interjected—she said, 'I doubt it', and I doubt it too. There is so much that is on the nose here that that million dollars or $10 million or whatever it costs could be the best possible investment we will ever make in cleaning up what clearly is, and smells like, a sewer. That sewer starts in New South Wales. Unfortunately, it is bubbling over, it is gurgling and it is emerging in Victoria. There are elements of it also in South Australia, in Western Australia and in the Northern Territory. I do not know about Queensland. We need to get to the bottom of it. We simply cannot trust a political committee to investigate those who are charged with dispensing and upholding democracy. (Time expired)