Senate debates
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Bills
Clean Energy Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Tax Laws Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Excise Tariff Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Shortfall Charge — General) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Auctions) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Fixed Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (International Unit Surrender Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Customs) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Excise) Bill 2011, Clean Energy Regulator Bill 2011, Climate Change Authority Bill 2011; Third Reading
12:50 pm
Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source
So here we have one more, puerile, student-politician act from the opposition, but we all know that the Senate has voted on the climate change legislation and that all we are doing now is preventing the Clerk from reading the titles of the bills. That must be huge victory for the opposition—they must be very proud of themselves for delaying the Clerk's reading of the titles of the bills! I think they ought to grow up, accept the decision of the Senate and move on.
I look forward to them supporting the Steel Transformation Plan Bill now rather than stacking the speakers list with people to make the same puerile contributions, full of abuse and arguments about process. Quite frankly, you have had nothing to contribute to this debate. We will not be supporting the suspension. Let the Liberal Party knock themselves out, because they are irrelevant to any proper debate in this chamber.
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