Robert Oakeshott (Lyne, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

and, to be fair, there have been some fair aspects. You do not even want to take a compliment. The scrutiny aspect, I think, is a very fair point—from my point of view, less as an issue of Labor arrogance or Liberal dented egos and more as an issue of the executive versus the parliament. I think the decision that was taken last Tuesday week was the wrong decision—it was mentioned by the member for New England—and, in hindsight, I would hope that we could agree that that should have been played differently. The huge irony for me is that—to the credit of the coalition, with the all-night sitting and being a bit belligerent about the issue of scrutiny, and of the Senate committee going into the detail with the Treasury heads—from that scrutiny the package has actually proved itself. So, over this two-week period—

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