John Williams (NSW, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I seek leave to table the electricity invoices from Grain Products Australia, all six of them over the three-month period, as I stated in a question during question time.

Leave not granted.

Opposition Senators:

Opposition senators interjecting—

Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order!

Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I seek leave to make a brief statement.

Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Deputy President. The issue here is that we have been asked to allow for this document to be tabled—

Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You demanded it, you silly woman!

Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order on my left!

Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Until the usual courtesies have been followed and we can consider the document that is proposed—

Opposition senators interjecting—

Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order on my left! Senator Collins, resume your seat.

Opposition senators interjecting—

Senators on my left, you are delaying time for motions to take note of answers.

Government senators interjecting—

And also senators on my right!

Senator Crossin interjecting—

Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Women on your side are all quota girls!

Trish Crossin (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I take offence!

Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You are now on the record!

Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I've been on the record before. You didn’t have to work as hard as everyone else to be here.

Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Senator Collins, you have the call.

Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The government would seek to see the document that has been proposed by Senator Williams, as is the usual courtesy.

John Williams (NSW, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I seek leave to make a brief statement for one minute.

Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

John Williams (NSW, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I intend to copy this and circulate it around the chamber so everyone can see it. The government called for these very documents, these electricity invoices, during question time. The government called for them and we have them here. Let us see if this is the open and transparent government under Ms Gillard that we were told about on 21 August 2010. Mr Deputy President, I will have these copied. I will circulate them around the chamber and then between the hours of 4 and 5, when I am on whips duty, I will move to have them tabled, as requested by the government, who wanted to see these invoices and see that the question I put in question time is true, honest and factual.