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

if you trash convention and processes, when you want to use them in your favour, just remember that you've given us the green light to trash processes in a way that works in your favour.

I just want everybody to understand what actually happened. A process was trashed. A convention was trashed. No respect or time was given to anybody to deal with the issue. It was not a process about the opposition; it was a process where a private senator simply wanted to refer their bill to a committee—a process that you had all agreed to last night. Somehow that has been overridden by somebody on the other side and now you've pulled your support. So all I can say is: have a very long think about it, because what you sow is what you reap.

Honourable senators interjecting—