Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

So the effect of this is: while we could've dealt with this legislation, particularly with regard to the legislation addressing the issue of kids and their families on Nauru, and had that dealt with by the House today, as a result of the tactics of both parties, we are now facing ramming through a guillotine of legislation that allows governments to spy on their citizens—effectively, to use their mobile phones as spying devices on Australian citizens? And we're not going to see any change over the Christmas period to the torture—the ongoing cruelty and brutality—of innocent people currently locked up in those offshore hellholes? I'm just seeking clarification: is that what's happened today, Mr President?