Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

I believe that I have a responsibility to represent those people, because they were not going to get any representation from the other side. The fact is that we are prepared to support this motion extending the time of sittings for the Main Committee. We are prepared to facilitate these debates. We are prepared to ensure that every opportunity is taken to talk about the forward-looking agenda that Kevin Rudd and Labor are pursuing. I commend the changes to the House. I suggest to the government and, through the minister, to the absent Leader of the House that to fill in this time in future we would be quite happy to debate the pieces of legislation that we have sitting on the Notice Paper, because that legislation represents the fact that we are ready to govern Australia into the future.

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