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

As the parliamentary secretary interjects, no more nanny state for Australia, and this is the manifestation of our genuine belief that we want less regulation and less red tape on business—regulation and red tape which are strangling the economy.

Many of my colleagues—at least 40—have listed themselves to speak on the debate today, and they will all get the opportunity to do so, because our side of the House is determined to limit speeches to the appropriate period of time that will allow all of my colleagues an opportunity to contribute. I hope the opposition will similarly limit their contributions in order to give as many members as possible the chance to talk about repeal day, the chance to talk about reducing regulation and red tape. In order to facilitate that, I propose to leave my remarks there.

I assume and hope that the opposition will support this debate management motion in order to make sure that repeal day occurs, as was intended over a week ago, and at that today we can pass legislation—

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