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

I present—and members might want to know this one—the sitting calendar for 2025. I ask leave of the House to move that the proposed parliamentary sittings be agreed to.

Leave granted.

I move:

That the proposed parliamentary sittings for 2025 be agreed to.

I would advise members that, once again, I have failed in my bid to sit every week! But the sitting calendar is there in a similar pattern to what has previously existed for election years. For those who have taken an interest in it, it does mean we will again be sitting on Melbourne Cup Day next year. I might add that there are more than one or two Australians who do work on Melbourne Cup Day! And we will again be among that number. I would also add that even the Howard government did that in my first term in 2005. I commend the sitting schedule to you all and hope that in future years I can win my endless argument to sit every week.

Question agreed to.

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