Zoe Daniel (Goldstein, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I echo the sentiments of the member for North Sydney. She and I have been poring over this intermittently for the last several hours, trying to work through a very heavy stack of amendments. Again, I appreciate the engagement with the minister and his office. My question is more generalised. I think it's not only for members of this chamber to understand; I think members of the public would be curious to know what the rush is. In many ways the Senate has been in mutiny on this, sending back a pretty unusual mechanism to try to delay this through a conference that I believe hasn't been used since the 1930s, which is a fairly radical step to prevent this legislation from passing this week. Given the Senate committee process and our understanding that, as we have discussed extensively, the bill that comes back in the end in February will be vastly different to anything that we vote on today, I'm still not really clear why we have to rush this through before Christmas.

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