Legislation is not required to tell us how to better serve our customers. [To think] the government could do that is absurd. It's unnecessarily meddlesome.

This is a shameless, shameful moment ... as the government bulldozes through the sale of Telstra legislation… And it's a sad moment for the Australian people who are overwhelmingly opposed to the sale… We witnessed both in this chamber and over in the other chamber an almost obscene dancing by our political opponents when this legislation passed through,

I am dismayed the governor decided to veto a voter-oriented, good government piece of legislation, ... However, I understand this bill would have adversely affected his govern-by-initiative approach by forcing paid signature gatherers to reveal their true identity to voters.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

If legislation doesn't protect habitat, how then can the government pretend that it will protect the species themselves?

Individuals and families are due a refund, and that is exactly what we do with this legislation, ... Government is not automatically entitled to the surplus.