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

Absolutely. Absolutely. I have no problem. We do not have to agree on everything, and we certainly do not. But what we've got here is a private senator's bill that was put forward by a senator—not by a government and not by the opposition but by an individual senator—who sought to have his bill referred to the committee. Last night, everybody agreed to that, but apparently today the Labor Party, the Greens, Senator Tyrrell and Senator Pocock have decided that they no longer support a private senator putting his bill to the committee. It would be really interesting to understand—

Honourable senators interjecting—