Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My amusement was that there was somehow some great democratic principle about you not being able to make decisions which actually impinged upon the existence of the state and its capacity to operate. I just don't know that's much of a protection. I think the Constitution does that. You say, Minister, that these decisions will be made robustly, with transparency and accountability. Can you confirm that you would not have to give any state government any notice of the possibility that you would veto an agreement which it had entered into?