Sam Dastyari (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

That's right. You would get it cheap. I am not sure what you would have to do in the office—

Senator Edwards interjecting—

I am outraged, Senator Edwards. I am disgusted. I am appalled. Look, I am fairly new to this place, so maybe I have been naive the whole time because, frankly, I expected better from Senator Di Natale. I expected better from a Greens political party, the rhetoric of which on this issue has been so strong for so many years, who have always said the right thing, and when the opportunity comes for them to actually stay tough and force a better bill, he folds. And he folds under some lie or premise that there is some kind of threat that the bill will not pass and the government is going to dump its own legislation. Senator Di Natale, through the chair: if you believe that, you will believe anything. The idea that you are going to fold on every matter, every issue and every point of principle just because the government is prepared to do this—