Robert Simms (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Here we go again—the Labor Party interjecting. They were the party which had six years to deliver this reform and did everything they could to try and avoid a debate. Then today, when we have an opportunity to do one, they start using this issue once again as a cheap political wedge. Let us be absolutely clear about what is happening here: after six years of inaction, after voting against marriage equality at every opportunity, every vote, every time, they then come into this place on Tuesday and say, 'Hey presto, let's deal with it; let's bring it on.' So the Greens said, 'We've got private members' time on Thursday; let's do it.'