Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Evans, is quite right about the procedural bankruptcy of the process that Senator Nash is bringing forward. For one, it will be difficult for her to object to any process after 1 July next year that comes anywhere close to this one in queue jumping and in breaching the proper forms of the Senate. It is a proper arrangement that such a bill as this, which brings into question the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money, ought to go to a Senate inquiry. That is a great advantage of the Senate—to have an inquiry so that the public can—