David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I move an amendment to the amendment moved by Senator Duniam:

Omit "17 April 2025", substitute "25 March 2025".

I voted against this guillotine earlier, despite supporting the WGEA bill and this bill. I think it's a great shame that, on what I'm hearing might be the last day of parliament, we yet again have a bill introduced into the parliament at the last minute and not subject to any parliamentary scrutiny. We have a sitting week in March. We have a prime minister who's told us that he's going full term, and he's told us that he's a man of his word. So I take him at his word and I believe that we will be back in March. This will allow us to have a short Senate inquiry to delve into the issues. As Senator Cash often reminds us, the devil is in the detail, and that's what the house of review is here for. We saw last night a deal to ram through the biggest electoral reforms in 40 years, with no Senate scrutiny, and the crossbench—