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

It was a mick he says. That was very, very mediocre, Senator Brandis. We will have a bit more to say about mediocrity, I am sure, in the days ahead, as will your colleagues, but that is a different point.

We saw the disarray from this government—the disarray which was government senators voting against the government's position, against the Prime Minister's position, in the few minutes before this motion came on. Nationals cabinet ministers were not even here to back in the Prime Minister's position. Now the Leader of the Government in the Senate walks in here, put down the motion and says: 'Guess what? We're going to be here all night if that's what it takes, because we've got the numbers.'