Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Some alarm has gone around for some people who had not read the Notice Paper in full, given that there are two proposed amendments on the Notice Paper from the Leader of the House. I should assure my colleagues that, of the two notices that the Leader of the House has on the Notice Paper, the one that he has now moved is not the atrocity. What has been described as the nuclear option is not the one that has been chosen today.

The Leader of the House is correct in saying that there has been some consultation in advance of this being put to the House. The opposition also welcomes the fact that the government, in choosing to take a full hour off government business, has decided that there is enough time for government business and therefore, I presume, will not be further using the gag on any of the legislation to come forward. We are happy to support this change.

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