Claire Moore (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Fifield, if you go back and check the Hansard, which I did, you will see that that phrase was used. The opposition and the Greens have had this discussion. We have said we will not stand in the way of this request for a change. We are taking note of the number of times we are asked to come in here and change our program for no known reason. This morning at 10 o'clock we had a vote to determine the order of business for a range of legislation that we are working through today. Already a number of bills have passed, yet this afternoon we were told that we have to make this change. This is not the way to make it work. We will not stand in the way, but we need to make our position known that this is not the standard way the Senate should operate.