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

I would like to express once again how disappointed I am that, in the most senior chamber of parliament in our country, we are not able to discuss or even to pass a motion relating to a global or foreign affairs issue because, for some reason the issue not having been put up by the government, it is too complex. It is absolutely pathetic. There is a running tally of the motions that the government do not want to deal with simply because they are too complex. When it suits them, the government are more than happy for us to discuss foreign affairs issues. When they do not, the issues become too complex. It is simply not good enough.

Question put:

That the motion (Senator Hanson-Young’s) be agreed to.