Barry O'Sullivan (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is a workplace; you have to remember that. I have been bullied. The point is that it is so dysfunctional that it is necessary to take up the valuable time of senators who ought to be in this chamber this afternoon at the time this meeting is convened . It is so dysfunctional that some of these meetings have gone for 45 minutes and have not made their way to the apologies on the agenda. So to take up valuable time of the senators who are required to go to this meeting this afternoon when we ought to be in this place dealing with important business on behalf of the nation is, again, a support of their sham that this committee has been from the very beginning. This should be rejected.