Sean Bell (NSW, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

One Nation will be supporting this motion, because it is entirely appropriate to deal with what is going on. The Labor government is intentionally wasting the Senate's time. That is abundantly clear. There are very important things that we should be dealing with, and the government is wasting this chamber's time. You can say it's a procedural issue, but, at the heart of it, you are intentionally wasting time. This has to stop. It is so disrespectful to the taxpayer. It is so disrespectful to the Australian people to engage—it's childish. It is a childish way that you are behaving. You are dragging things out intentionally, and it needs to stop.

One Nation is prepared to assist anyone who wants to resolve this. This is a perfectly reasonable motion, and I am glad that Labor acknowledges that we need to speed things up. If you want to speed things up, then I would hope that would support this motion, too. It is so obvious what you are doing. You are intentionally dragging things out, and then, at the end of the week, you will come and say, 'We are out of time,' and then you will move a guillotine and seek to rush legislation through. You will shut down debate. You are wasting time now to give yourself an excuse in the future to shut down debate and ram through legislation. That is inappropriate.

We must resolve things now so you can no longer use the excuse of being out of time. You have the time now to fix this. Let's fix it, and let's get on with the business of the Senate that we should be dealing with.