• Liberal Party Senator for ACT
• Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Materiel (since 14 Sep 2010)
  Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Attorney-General (since 14 Sep 2010)
• Became a Senator on 18 February 2003
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Bills: Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2013; In Committee (15 May 2013)

“I want to pose a number of questions to the minister about this legislation. Before the end of the second reading debate on this legislation I was saying that the Australian people are confronted with the mechanics of a referendum being engineered for September this year where there are many unusual and, some might say, unsatisfactory elements and where we are confronted with an increasing...”

Bills: Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2013; In Committee (15 May 2013)

“The problem here is that we have a referendum being set up to amend the Constitution in circumstances where one does not need to be especially cynical to come to the view that the entire exercise is designed to produce a rejection by the Australian people of the proposal.”

Bills: Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2013; In Committee (15 May 2013)

“If you want to put money on this succeeding, Minister, I would be very happy to take your wager.”

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• Has spoken in 50 debates in the last year — average amongst Senators.
• People have made 1 comment on this Senator's speeches — average amongst Senators.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 348 times in debates — above average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)