Senator Duncan Spender of the Liberal Democrats has slammed the major parties for passing a bill without even having seen it.
Last night Labor and Coalition Senators combined to pass the Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019.
The Government claims it had introduced the bill minutes earlier, but the usual process of introduction, where the bill is circulated to all Senators in the Senate chamber and published on the parliament’s website, did not occur.
“If the bill was not properly introduced, it cannot have been passed,” Senator Spender said.
“The President of the Senate has questions to answer about why he did not intervene, in or even
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