Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I don't believe any fair-minded person looking at Mr Morrison's secret ministries, or the robodebt tragedy, would think that the standards of transparency and accountability to the parliament were sufficient. I would make the point, Senator Babet—because I'm going to anticipate where your next question will go—that, as a consequence of there being an agreement or a decision to remove motions from the Senate Order of Business, the ways in which the crossbench and the now opposition have sought to change that is by a very substantial increase in orders for production of documents. Senator Babet, I am someone who has been here for quite a long time, since 2002. I have never seen as many OPDs used as indiscriminately as the current opposition and crossbench are using them. That is fine, if you—