Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

We are doing the right thing by the Australian people. We want to remove discrimination against students before the end of the parliamentary sitting year in a way that is also fair and reasonable in terms of the job done by religious schools across Australia who are teaching about a million Australian kids. It is very important that this is done the right way. The amendments that we've put forward are entirely reasonable. They're appropriately calibrated. And if the Labor Party were genuinely interested in resolving this issue, they would come on board with us rather than seek to use this as a political weapon. The thought that you should have rammed this through with a gag is entirely inappropriate.

Senator Jacinta Collins interjecting—