Senate debates
Monday, 16 September 2019
Committees
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee; Reference
8:12 pm
Rex Patrick (SA, Centre Alliance) | Hansard source
Well, we could talk about things like ISDS. You backflipped on that. We can talk about you standing up and saying you're not going to support tax cuts, and then you come into this chamber and capitulate. We can talk about the TEO bill, where you stood and said, 'I don't want to support that, because it is wrong in law.' We were going to stand by you. Two days before the vote, you capitulated. It was the same thing with the vegan bill last week. You knew there needed to be changes but you didn't do anything. You announced upfront: 'We're going to move some amendments. If they get up, all well and good. If it goes back to the House and it gets rejected, we're going to support it anyway.' The biggest decision the Labor Party makes at this point in time is: at what point are we going to capitulate? That's where you're at.
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