Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Acting Deputy President. The Prime Minister should not have fibbed—let's put it that way—but her day of reckoning will come. Her day of accountability will be at the next election but the place where the government is accountable between elections is in this chamber and in the committees of the Senate. The first step for those opposite to seek to regain some dignity and some honour for their government is for it to submit this package of legislation to the Australian Senate and to the full processes of scrutiny of this chamber. That is what the government should do. We on this side are giving it this opportunity to set things right, to correct the error that I believe it made in the Selection of Bills Committee last night. I commend this amendment to the chamber.