Michelle Ananda-Rajah (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The government will not be supporting the Lobbying (Improving Government Honesty and Trust) Bill 2025. Senator Pocock and some members of the crossbench, including the Greens and possibly even the Liberals—which is astounding—have made themselves the self-styled prefects of this parliament. They ensure that we all have our ties straight and our shoes polished. Yet, when I look back on the track record, it's not them who ushered in the National Anti-Corruption Commission, which we did in our first term of government—this Labor government. They were a footnote in history, but history will show that it was the Albanese Labor government of the 47th Parliament—