Senator WATERS (Queensland—Leader of the Australian Greens in the Senate) (16:02): What an absolute farce we have had today! The chest-beating that we've seen for the last half an hour has been a complete waste of time. We have bills that have just completed their second reading stage and are due to pass either later today or tomorrow morning. The bills themselves aren't great and, frankly, give far too much money to the very wealthy. We'd rather see that money going into dental and Medicare, into building public homes and into scrapping student debt . Yet what we've seen is some chest-beating in a pathetic exercise of pointing fingers at each other. Senator Cash: What are you doing now? Pot, kettle, black— The PRESIDENT: Senator Cash! Senator WATERS: I'd like to place on record, while I'm being yelled at by the opposition, that we won't support any of this nonsense. There has not been a solid case made to change the program of dealing with these bills in the ordinary manner, and the one-upmanship that's been attempted by both sides today is deeply unedifying. So let's get on with it, stick with the program, and these bills, tepid as they are, will pass. We will continue to request that the government not give perks to people earning over $200,000 and instead invest in universal services that might actually help address the cost of living. The PRESIDENT: The question is that the amendment as moved by Senator Chisholm to the motion as moved by Senator Birmingham be agreed to.