Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that the Senate passed a motion on 10 November calling on the minister to hold an emergency summit of stakeholders and yet we have had no response, and given that the Senate called on the minister yesterday to table her plan for 2009 to ensure that parents had some certainty for the care of their children when they return from Christmas, is it right to assume that the minister has little regard for the decisions made by the Senate, and little regard for the concerns of parents? Is the minister snubbing the Senate? And is the minister snubbing Australian mums and dads?