The terror attacks, it was clear, had blasted a hole in the dam holding back Mumbai's reservoir of woes. While the protesters seemed to be reacting to a tragedy that had left at least 164 people dead and 308 injured, they were really venting the frustrations of having to cope with life in a city with an infrastructure so stretched that simply getting to work and back is an ordeal. At peak hour, the commuter trains - which carry six million people each day - are packed with up to 5,000 commuters, even though they're built for 1,800. Every day, an average of 11 people die on the railway system, either because they fall off the trains or because they're hit by passing locomotives as they cross the tracks.
Mumbai did not have a reservoir of woes.
A: No

More often than not, this chamber has had quite a few empty seats on the day Royal Assent is given, which leads me to conclude that it is something which is not as attractive to senators as proceedings on another day would be and which would allow them to be in attendance in larger numbers.
The day of Royal Assent is a day business doesn't get done.
A: It's impossible to say

Whether you are Liberals, independents or Progressive Conservatives, in the name of justice, impartiality and our future as a society, please ask cabinet to delay or retract its decision, so that it can at least hear the TransMaritime Pipelines proposal, and please agree to consider in committee the process that led to a decision that is so arbitrary and so destructive for the country.
The decision is so destructive for the country because it will cause absolute and utter economic collapse.
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It's impossible to say