Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Minister for Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

on the third reading. Senator Cormann, I sit and listen patiently to you; I do not interject. But you sit down after asking an alleged question which is more in the nature of a speech. I think for those Australians who are listening to this debate, this is a time for questions, not long speeches. I pointed out last night, in the first hour of the debate—I answered the questions—that many of the questions that were being asked had in fact been asked before and had been dealt with in the second reading debate.