Philip Ruddock (Berowra, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Madam Deputy Speaker, what I am trying to put to you and to my colleagues is that there are important issues that our constituents are raising with the climate change legislation, but the way it is being dealt with means that the opportunity to raise those issues is going to be severely constrained. That is the substantial concern than I have. If I wanted to raise the issue of my dry-cleaner friend who is now having to work through the night so that he can get his electricity at a cut rate and not put at risk the viability of his business—and I do not know what it is doing for his family life; I think his family life must be like that of a federal member of parliament who is still sitting here at 12 o'clock at night trying to consider legislation—

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