Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

The reason that I believe that it is very important that we do not suspend the Senate and we allow it to continue to operate the way it was intended to operate today is because the importance of holding the government to account is being undermined by the continuous activities of those that are opposite. I would remind those opposite about the importance of this particular provision, and, as I said, in the 13 years that I have been in this place, I have never seen a government more intent in avoiding transparency, avoiding accountability and, quite frankly, avoiding what needs to happen—