Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Chairman of the Coalition Policy Development Committee) Share this | Hansard source

The reason that standing orders must be suspended, the very important reason that they must be suspended, is that this government knows that a proper debate about debt would expose the extent of its profligacy. The government has gagged debate. We have seen it again already. The way this government has gagged debate about debt exposes both its shame and its shamelessness. It is ashamed because it does not want the public to know and it is shameless because it does not care. It does not care about the dead weight of debt that this government is putting—

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