Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I am not surprised Senator Di Natale is yelling at me, because he is supposed to be this moderate, green, polite man, and what he is doing is voting with the Tories to ram legislation through and to ensure this parliament cannot consider the bill properly. That is what is happening. Whatever people's views about what should occur in relation to the voting system—and there are a lot of different ways in which the voting system could be changed—surely no-one can seriously say that the largest changes in 30 years to our electoral system, in a bill that was introduced this week, which has been done so quickly and in such a slapdash manner that the government has already had to amend it—

Honourable senators interjecting—

Mr Deputy President, I would ask if I could speak. Thank you. Surely none of these people—

Honourable senators interjecting—