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

Labor has stuck out a draft sitting calendar for 2024 with only three sitting weeks in it before the budget. Now, embarrassingly, they've had to come into this place and add another week to the calendar, in an attempt to prevent us criticising them because of their absolute, blatant lack of transparency. For a government who were elected on a platform of transparency, they have made an art form of running away from transparency, as we saw in the last debate. This is another example of the contempt this government has for Australia. Examples include no details on the referendum, a half-baked COVID inquiry that lets their mates from the states and territories off the hook and now a calendar that avoids proper scrutiny. I quote:

… we acknowledge that the government have a very low number of sitting days for this chamber because they have lost control of it.

That was Katy Gallagher on 1 December 2021. Why don't you actually live by your own advice?

Question agreed to.