Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party) | Hansard source

In the final 20 seconds, as I say this it is being live-streamed and up to 45,000 people are watching now. They're obviously very disappointed with the process this place has gone through. I think it's not the finest hour for our Senate to guillotine a debate of this importance to so many Australians. There was no need for this rush—absolutely no need for it. We could have done this next year and still had the intended start date. It's a real shame that we've got to this state in the Australian Senate.