Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

It is a statement, actually. I put it to Senator Ellison whether he intends treating the Senate with such contempt and whether he can explain what has happened to the migration bill. Why has it disappeared and why were people who were preparing to speak on the Aboriginal land rights bill not given any warning that it was coming on? Fundamentally, what has happened to the migration bill such that you could only give us one minute’s notice that the bill was not to be debated when Labor and other senators were ready to debate the bill?