Cory Bernardi (SA, Australian Conservatives) Share this | Hansard source

I assure the Senate and those who have their tinfoil hats on that my call for a proroguing of this parliament has been longstanding since the citizenship crisis started to engulf this place. I find it extraordinary that you confect some outrage, Senator Hinch, because you think that somehow this is a nefarious plot against your rainbow agenda. It has nothing to do with that. I'm concerned for the integrity of this place. I have been on the record as saying that for some months now, and I provided that advice to the government which they decided not to heed. This is not my responsibility. This is a responsibility of all of us to re-establish and reassert the confidence of the Australian people in the eligibility of every single one of us to be here. The denials of appropriation or accountability in this place only undermine our standing in the eyes of the Australian people. More people will be disqualified and we are all responsible collectively for the failure to address it.

Question negatived.