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

This is urgent because we have a friendless bill that the government is stopping a Senate committee reporting on. So I urge the Senate. It's time to actually say, as the Senate, that we won't stand for that. We will not deal with a bill that the department admitted they did no consultation on. That was very clear from the 60-odd submissions and very clear from every single witness who appeared before the Senate committee. It was a friendless bill. People were bemused by this bill and the need for it, and what I've heard in consulting with veterans here in the ACT is that, in the wake of the royal commission—