Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

One Nation opposes this motion. The Senate is the house of review. One Nation will resist the Anthony Albanese government's efforts to restrict the Senate's opportunity to debate and to amend. We oppose turning the Senate into a rubber stamp for the lower house.

If Senator Gallagher must continually reorder business, one has to ask what has gone wrong in the government? Why did the Albanese government set out a sitting calendar containing fewer sitting days than normal then, with the end of the year looming, we face guillotine motions and a truncating of Senate process? I doubt this is due to the government's lack of ability. These repeated reorders, when taken together with the decision to reduce the crossbench staff, reek more of deliberate censorship than incompetence. We have to ask what deals were done with the Greens and with Senator Pocock to approve this and previous reorders. Dodgy deals extend well beyond Victorian Premier, Dan Andrews, to Labor as a whole.