Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Firstly, I, as much as many others, would love to be debating marriage equality. I make the point that we had a week set aside where we could have debated that and citizenship issues and we didn't. This is an important matter that has to be resolved in this parliament and so if, as a result of this debate, we need to have extra time to debate marriage equality, that is exactly what this House should do, because it is not our fault that all of these things are crashing in all at once.

We are in a situation at the moment where, as we understand the composition of this House—

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