Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury) Share this | Hansard source

That makes it all the more ridiculous. That makes it all the more outrageous. When this private senator's bill appeared and was on the Senate Notice Paper, guess what happened? Dr Chalmers and Dr Leigh woke up. The least they could do for Australian consumers, they did. There is a media statement, everyone goes back to sleep, there is nothing to see, a private senator's bill comes up for debate and, oh, Senator Pocock has been given a commitment by Dr Chalmers or Dr Leigh that it will happen today. Is that how the government functions? I will put my hand up and say that, for the next three days in the Senate, we should only have private senator's bills. Senator Payman, Senator McKim, we should only have private senator's bills—