Jason Falinski (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will be speaking directly to the second reading amendment that the Labor Party has moved, the member for Gorton specifically, to the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure Protection) Bill 2022. When you look at the terms of the second reading amendment you will see that virtually nothing can be out of order in this debate because the amendment is cast in such broad terms that you can basically talk about fusion on the sun and that would be relevant to this bill. We all know why they do this. They do this so that their stupid, undergraduate games played by the Open Foundation where they can make out that those members on this side of the House—

An opposition member interjecting—

I notice the member opposite laughing. Of course they laugh. You are the joke. The members opposite are the absolute jokes of this parliament. They take votes from crossbenchers who claim to be in favour of climate change action but who attempted to hide a donation from the director of a coal company who bought his coalmine from Eddie Obeid, and those opposite laugh! They are an appalling group of individuals who simply have misled and misinformed the Australian people through their stupid little puerile games conducted by the Open Foundation. They come in here every single day and move some second reading amendment because they think they are being oh so clever, like none of them ever left the student representative council at Bond University. That's how they operate; that's the sort of government we could expect from them, a government run by puerile undergraduates. We don't really have to imagine very hard. We only have to look back to when they were last in government in 2010 and relying on—you guessed it—the votes of the crossbench!

But this time we'll have a very special crossbench, paid for by Simon Holmes a Court, who was today at the National Press Club, where he was making all sorts of claims about how you can move as many—

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