Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

I accept your admonition, Mr Deputy Speaker. The government has made this call that they will gag the most important pieces of legislation, the most significant economic reform in the history of Federation. We are not going to allow them to then try and wriggle out of their situation by pretending that we will somehow allow them more time when, in the first place, they should not have gagged this legislation.

I call on the Leader of the House to remove this motion from the Notice Paper, to not proceed with it, to allow the House to properly consider the 19 pieces of legislation. It is in the interests of the government. We know from their record that they have got most of their policies wrong in the last 3½ years of government. If I were them, I would rather get these bills right now, even though we oppose them, rather than have to come back here, cap in hand—which I predict they will—and have to change and amend these bills in order to make up for the mistakes that have been created because of their failure to get them right now.

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