House debates
Monday, 26 October 2020
Bills
Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020; Third Reading
7:14 pm
Trevor Evans (Brisbane, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I seek leave to read the third reading immediately.
Leave not granted.
I move:
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the motion for the third reading being moved without delay.
7:15 pm
Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Time after time, members have come to the dispatch box or stood in their places and asked for the call to debate what is supposed to be a priority bill for the government.
Trevor Evans (Brisbane, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
That the question be now put.
Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The question is that the question be put.
7:20 pm
Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The question now is that the motion moved by the minister to suspend standing orders be agreed to.
7:22 pm
Trevor Evans (Brisbane, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
That the bill be now read a third time.
Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
This bill is about waste, and do you know what's been a waste? The last seven years of this government, where they've done absolutely nothing to facilitate recycling. I move:
That the debate be adjourned.
Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The question is that the debate be not adjourned.
7:27 pm
Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The question before the House still is this bill be now read a third time. I call the member for Griffith.
Terri Butler (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Paying $33 million for a $3 million plot of land is—
Trevor Evans (Brisbane, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
That the question be now put.
Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The question is that the question be now put.
7:29 pm
Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The question now is that this bill be read a third time.
Question agreed to.
Bill read a third time.