Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

What an absolute farce we have had today! The chest-beating that we've seen for the last half an hour has been a complete waste of time. We have bills that have just completed their second reading stage and are due to pass either later today or tomorrow morning. The bills themselves aren't great and, frankly, give far too much money to the very wealthy. We'd rather see that money going into dental and Medicare, into building public homes and into scrapping student debt . Yet what we've seen is some chest-beating in a pathetic exercise of pointing fingers at each other.