Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Can we be serious here for one moment? If you just want to stand around and congratulate each other, please go back to your party room and do it. This is the Senate. This is the only opportunity for those senators who have not had a chance to properly consider all these amendments—because they have been dropped on us at the last minute—to get any clarification of what is in them. The opportunity to ask these questions is now. You have guillotined that time down to four hours: do not make the Senate the same farce that you acknowledge the Senate committee was.