Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Farrell, you have been in this place for quite some time, a lot longer than I have been. You will know that it is a standard convention that you do not mislead the Senate by providing false information. You are on the record tonight, and I will ask the President and the Deputy President to review the record tonight. You have gone on the record and you have knowingly lied to the Senate. You have said that you and your colleagues have consulted with people in the Northern Territory who have said to those people that they were compulsorily forced onto the cashless debit card. In the absence of you being able to provide any information or evidence whatsoever that any person in the Northern Territory has been forced onto the cashless debit card, I would ask you to reflect on your comments and perhaps come back to this chamber at another time and address the chamber about the fact that you continue to mislead the chamber, even though I have advised you that there is no way that anybody in the Northern Territory has been forced onto the cashless debit card.

I will move on specifically to some questions directly around the amendment. Is it the intention of the government for the FRC to determine the percentage of funds quarantined or will they be required to meet the fifty-fifty rules as outlined by other amendments?