Senate debates

Monday, 21 June 2021

Documents

COVID-19 Vaccination Certificates; Order for the Production of Documents

6:00 pm

Photo of Kimberley KitchingKimberley Kitching (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

That the Senate take note of the document.

In taking note of this, I'm firstly going to take the chamber through a cognitive bias effect. When we consider the performance of Minister Reynolds, we are afforded a living, breathing embodiment of what social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger described as the 'internal illusion of people of low ability where they perceive their competence to be much higher than it is'. While a fascinating experiment to see just how out of her depth a minister can be without a whole government department collapsing and government programs failing, it is clearly time for the government to accept that the Dunning-Kruger effect is real and to put this hapless, heartless, cretinous minister out of her misery.

On 18 March this year, I moved a motion—

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