Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Obstructionist and irrelevant: say no to everything—say no to absolutely everything! Everything that we are sent here to do in this place to progress issues on behalf of the Australian people and to implement the policies that we took to the election, you say no to. You say no to wage rises. You say no to the safeguard mechanism. You say no to the climate laws. You say no to extra housing and you say no to new manufacturing jobs. The list goes on and on and on. And when you say no to everything you have nothing to say, do you? So you have to move suspension debates, like you did this morning and like you're doing now, because you are so irrelevant that you have nothing to bring to this chamber. You have absolutely no value to bring to this chamber and so we're at the point, with 10 minutes to go, where this is the best that you have. This is the best that you have! You say no to almost every piece of legislation that comes into this chamber. You don't want to debate anything. You don't want to talk about it. Your behaviour—

Opposition senators interjecting—