Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

It appears we are now suspending standing orders for a motion that we do not know. Apparently, it is supposed to come to us through divine inspiration! But everybody else seems to know it. It would be interesting, since they know it, for them to read out this motion into the Hansard. Otherwise, this is another form of that caucusing—caucusing so as to remove the right of this chamber to proper and open transparency in the delivery of the facts that are so pertinent to this piece of legislation. And now the Greens are in unison with the government on this. The Greens now want to deliver gags. We already have a statement by Senator Bob Brown that he is prepared to sit here till Christmas. Well, so am I, Senator Brown; but the moment you move a gag you make yourself a complete and utter hypocrite, a complete and utter hypocrite—