Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Acting Deputy President, with all these spurious so-called points of order the government yet again wastes the time of the Senate when we want to be discussing the CPRS bills. This morning on every formal notice of motion we had a two-minute statement by the government, and then the government and their mates in the Greens had division after division after division, wasting the limited time we have to address and to point out the failings in the CPRS. We have this hypocrisy on this debate. Senator Cormann’s motion is very appropriate. It can be dealt with speedily if we do not have more interference from the government in dragging out the time before we can get on to the CPRS bills.

Question agreed to.