Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) 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, 7 December 2017.

In so doing, I'll explain that, while I think that the marriage equality private members' bill and all of its amendments will be dealt with well before five o'clock, we also have a couple of messages from the Senate to deal with and the introduction of some national security bills. I don't think that will keep us here well into the night—it might keep us here into the early evening—but we need to move these motions to ensure that we can deal with those this afternoon and this evening and not have to sit tomorrow.

Question agreed to.

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