Senate debates
Thursday, 18 November 2010
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Suspension of Standing Orders
10:52 am
Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source
I need to take the Senate back to the point here, which is the suspension of standing orders. As Senator Ludwig pointed out earlier, there has still been no case made out. Senator Birmingham takes us to the Notice Paper and to the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2010, the CCS bill, and he seeks to make a very spurious link, as did Senator Joyce. But the point is that the bill on the Notice Paper, the CCS bill, is a stand-alone piece of legislation, mostly relating to Telstra, which does not go to the role of NBN Co. and its commercial structure.
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