Deborah O'Neill (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

That is a very good question, Senator Brandis. Yes, we have plenty of new points to make, and we may indeed have many more new points to make if we get a look at the deals that are being constructed around this building right now. But the chance to properly scrutinise any of the amendments coming forward is something that you are trying to interrupt through this process right now. I have not been in this chamber to see some of the things that you guys have been talking about as practice of the Senate, but I have been in classrooms for 20 years, and I know how important it is—