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

It was a reflection of this amendment. This amendment had been brought in—

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We got pilloried by members opposite for our contributions, which were substantive—

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We could have some less intervention, yelling and screaming here. We have been denigrated here and yet both the member for Lindsay, who introduced this amendment, and previous speakers, have spent hardly any time discussing the bill. All they have done is get hot-headed about denigrating us, state governments and others. They got hot-headed and dismissive. The fact that the—

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