Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

This stunt shows just how low this government has sunk when it comes to its credibility, just how pathetic and desperate this once proud government was. This is a government which doesn't have an energy policy and now has thrown out all conventions of this House as a stunt. I move:

That the words 'for a later hour' be deleted and replaced with 'on the first sitting day of 2019'.

I do so because that's the proper process of this parliament. That's how good policy is made. That is the proper process that the Australian people expect of the government.

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