Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Housing and Urban Development) Share this | Hansard source

I might draw to your attention, Mr Temporary Chairman Hutchins, because it may have escaped your notice, that we have now been debating this particular amendment for four hours. The minister at the table has managed to proceed, in the manner that he has adopted during that period, not one millimetre in four hours. As I have said before, as a former manager of government business, you would have thought he would know a little bit more about how to deal with legislation of this type. But he fails to appreciate the lessons—