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

The reason this suspension is particularly urgent is that there could be nothing more urgent in this place than a government that is abusing its power. Quite frankly, that is nothing more and nothing less than what is happening here. You are a government that came to power promising transparency and accountability, and all you have done is be completely non-transparent and unaccountable, and, in the process of doing that, you are abusing your power.

To make things even worse, when the will of the chamber was expressed not in your favour, what did we hear last week? We heard that the Leader of the House, Mr Burke, threatened retribution.