Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the House for passing that resolution. I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the following occurring:

(1) the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014 [No. 3] being presented without notice, read a first time, second reading moved and the debate on the motion for the second reading being adjourned to a later hour;

(2) immediately thereafter the Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Bill 2016 being presented without notice, read a first time, second reading moved and the debate on the motion for the second reading being adjourned to a later hour;

(3) immediately thereafter the Road Safety Remuneration Amendment (Protecting Owner Drivers) Bill 2016 being presented without notice, read a first time, second reading moved and the debate on the motion for the second reading being adjourned to a later hour;

(4) when the order of the day for the resumption of debate on the second reading of the Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Bill 2016 is called on, a cognate debate taking place with the Road Safety Remuneration Amendment (Protecting Owner Drivers) Bill 2016; and

(5) any variation to this arrangement being made only by a motion moved by a Minister.

The purpose of this motion and subsequent motions is to allow the House to debate the matters for which it has been recalled. We have just dealt with the Australian Building and Construction Commission legislation message to be sent back to the Senate, and this House has passed that bill twice. We will now give the Senate an opportunity to bring productivity back to the building and construction industry and to bring the rule of law back to the building and construction industry, but there are other bills that the government wishes to deal with. One of those is the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014, a bill that this House has passed three times, and a bill that is designed to support honest workers, honest union leaders and the people that they represent, and to root out dishonest union leaders in unions. It is a bill which we have passed three times and which we will pass again in the next 24 hours.

There are two other bills that, it has become absolutely apparent since the House last sat, need to be passed: the Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Bill 2016 and the Road Safety Remuneration Amendment (Protecting Owner Drivers) Bill 2016, in the event that the abolition bill is not passed. I do not wish to delay the House in the substance of the debate around the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal bill, because members want to get on with debating it, and there is a long list of members on both sides of the House who wish to speak on the disastrous, catastrophic events surrounding owner drivers of trucks, introduced by the Labor Party when they decided to put small business out of business, look after big unions, big government and big business. That is why we are moving the suspension in the terms that have been described—in order to allow the House to deal with those bills according to the standing orders.

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