Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

I also ask you to postpone this by a day, please, so that we can all be adults and show the rest of Australia that we can be adults and go and sort this out over the next four or five weeks. You have problems with this motion. The production of documents shouldn't be included. If you co-sponsor, you lose a mark. Tasmanians elected me to be their independent representative, and I don't abuse the system. I don't put motions up very often, but, if I, like Senator Patrick, have to wait a week to get that motion out and it is time-critical, then we've got a problem here.

If you want to talk about problems here and about wasting time, go out and ask the people of Australia what they think about your dorothy dixers, to sell yourselves. If you've got something to sell, go and do what the rest of us have to do and get out there and do it. If you're talking about things that are important and you're running dorothy dixers, trying to sell yourselves in here, then maybe we need to talk about that.

We know that we've got a problem in here, and we can admit that. But, please, out of respect to the crossbench, give us four or five weeks so we can talk about this, so we can do it like adults and make sure we're all in agreeance. It's no good coming in here like a bunch of bullies, both of you, and bulldozing us. You know there are a lot of moves—we can hold this up. We can do this all day today. It does not help when you've got three critical crossbenchers sitting in here and you're bulldozing us, without at least doing the right thing. This is just stupidity at its best—absolute stupidity. I'm sure Labor is loving it, because it's you people over there that need our vote.

So, please, for goodness sake, let's be adults. We're asking you to hold back one day so we can all go back to the table over the next four or five weeks. Like we said, we know there is a problem with these motions. But, out of respect to the crossbench—it doesn't matter which party or Independent they are—I'm asking you to hold this back a day. Otherwise, I tell you, anything you want done today is not going to get done today either. Alright? We all need practice in making moves in here. We've got all day. So, please, hold it back for a day.