Bob Day (SA, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—What was most telling was the government's refusal to allow the Department of Finance to give evidence to the inquiry when it was quite happy for its other constituent parts, the Liberal Party's national director and the National Party's federal director, to take up time giving evidence on something that they actually helped construct and clearly agreed with. The government is clearly in a rush with this legislation. I have to leave to one side, given time limitations, the amazing about face of the Greens in that they would, it seems, support gagging debate to ram this legislation through in the next sitting week. My question is: why is the government deploying the big guns, sealing the mother-of-all backroom deals built on the mother-of-all captains calls by the Greens leader, by using the mother-of-all gagging approaches for the next sitting week to ram this legislation through. Why the rush?