Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) | Hansard source

Pursuant to contingent notice standing in the name of the Leader of the Opposition, I move:

That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent further consideration of the bills without a limitation of time.

I move this motion because tonight we are spending $213 billion of taxpayers' money, can I tell you, without a word of debate, without one minute of scrutiny and without one iota of interest from the Australian government senators in this place, with their bedfellows down the end there, the Australian Greens. This is the next chapter of their dirty, dodgy and dastardly deal, of which we've seen many iterations over time. But who cares about $213 billion of taxpayers' money? Let's burn it. Let's chuck it out the door. This is what is happening here. Scrutiny is a thing of the past under this Labor-Green alliance—the brave new world of moderate politics over here, which has absolutely trashed the convention of scrutiny in this place. The Senate is the house of review—