Maria Kovacic (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's simply fascinating that there is time to plaster the faces of senators on a billboard to drive around the parliament, enough time to launch a website dedicated to a falsehood about the cost of the Senate doing its job and enough time to do press conferences about the same but not enough time to comply with an order for the production of documents.

I understand that some people don't necessarily understand what goes on here, and it appears that Minister Shorten finds the Senate a confusing place, but we take our job of scrutiny and house of review very seriously. If he took time to consider the Constitution, he would see that we are one part of two equal chambers, and the work we do here is important.