Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The government—unsurprisingly—doesn't support the suspension motion, for two reasons. First, the House has already voted today on whether or not this bill would be delayed, and the House decided that it should not be. While the suspension motion that is in front of us uses different words, it effectively has the same effect.

The second reason that we oppose it is—and it's not surprising—that the House is always reluctant to agree that when we proceed we'll be in the hands of a Senate inquiry. So, for those two reasons, the government is opposing the suspension, and I move:

That the question be now put.

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