Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Abetz interjects on the basis that we have moved a long way. We now have committees functioning. We have moved to a point where the committee system does work, and it works not because of the work the coalition have put in; it works because of the work of the Labor Party and the minority parties in getting it to function and work effectively. What the coalition are now doing is pulling it down, piece by piece. And each time that they do that I am going to come into this chamber and point it out, because the system that they have now condoned will lead to errors, omissions and corrections that will have to be made. It is unacceptable, and I will make that point.