Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take further note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) to questions without notice asked by Senators Dastyari and Bishop today relating to the regulation of financial services.

There is a cunning plan going on on that side of the chamber. You can obviously see it. The trend of the week has been all about Western Australia because we happen to have a Western Australian Senate election. Mr Deputy President, I have to raise your attention to this: I do not see one Western Australian senator. There is one from Tassie, one from the ACT, one from Victoria—no, there is not one Western Australian senator who had the guts to stay in here and have the discussion. I want to go to the questions to Senator Cormann, but I cannot allow Senator Fawcett to escape with that ridiculous lead-in he gave me about how many doctors are employed somewhere in a GP superclinic in South Australia. We have a hospital in Perth—for all you West Aussies out there—called the Fiona Stanley Hospital. It is a well-known, brand-new, magnificent facility announced by—