Lisa Singh (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

I also rise to take note of answers to questions I and Senator Conroy asked of Senator Abetz. I start by speaking in support of Senator Cameron's remarks on this debate, when he outlined Shane Stone's comments on the coalition as being mean, tricky and nasty; nothing has changed, as Senator Cameron noted.

I also rise to support Senator Faulkner's comments on the principles of chamber management. What we saw last week from the government was the trampling of the Senate's principles of chamber management and, through that, the lack of government authority in this place. We did not see the sort of adult government that the Prime Minister had outlined—