Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Manufacturing) Share this | Hansard source

If this place wants to go back to before there was a deal—we saw just a few days ago that Facebook was threatening to leave the country. We saw a host of crazy things happen out there, and yet we have—just like Senator Hanson-Young did—coming from Senator Patrick, an amendment that does not mitigate those risks. It does not cure the uncertainty that is here. Putting a number on it does not address in any way the power imbalances that need to be addressed. It could, in fact, further distort them, because we don't yet know who's been at the table in the deals.

An honourable senator: You're rolling over again!

This has nothing—

Honourable senators interjecting—

We will not be wedged—

Honourable senators interjecting—

Be it on your head if we go back to the crazy land that we were in a few days ago!

The CHAIR: Order! Senator Pratt, resume your seat. Senator Pratt has the right to be heard in silence. We are in Committee of the Whole. Any senator can stand and put their point of view. I would ask that Senator Pratt be heard in silence.