Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That standing order 31 (automatic adjournment of the House) and standing order 33 (limit on business) be suspended for the sitting on Thursday, 26 June 2014.

This is the usual motion that is moved on the last day of a session when we are abandoning the adjournment at 4:30 in order to be able to conduct government business for as long as it takes so that we can get out at a reasonable hour tonight. My anticipation, for the members of the House who are interested in their travel arrangements et cetera, is that we will have a debate on the carbon tax repeal bill today and the MRRT repeal bill today. We have allowed most of the day for that debate. If the opposition abandon their MPI, which I doubt that they will want to do, that would give this extra time. But we do not intend at this stage to abandon the MPI. We will then start going through the final stages of both the MRRT bill and the carbon tax bill.

I anticipate that we will not rise of the normal are five o'clock but I think we will rise reasonably shortly after that, depending on whether opposition is of a mind to be a reasonable or unreasonable—that would depend on them. I anticipate that, even if the opposition is unreasonable, we will still rise a couple of hours after five o'clock. So most people will be able to get out tonight. We certainly will not be sitting tomorrow. My anticipation is that most people will be able to get out on planes after about seven o'clock tonight at the latest.

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