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

What the opposition are now engaged in is nothing short of a stunt. They let my office know about this a couple of minutes before 9.30 am, when the bells were ringing. If that is the way they want to manage the relationship on how we deal with the program, it is clear that what they said yesterday about the program should be just thrown out the window. The opposition have now clearly indicated that they want to manage the program, and that they want to speak to the program and to use it to suit their own political ends, rather than allow the usual procedures in this place to continue in an appropriate way. So all that has happened now—