Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. I will be very brief. The Greens will not be supporting that amendment. We have had no consultation with the government about sitting until midnight tomorrow night, let alone sitting potentially from Thursday until Saturday or Sunday without a break. I have to say to the government that if it wants to extend sitting hours to meet the crush of business—because we do not sit often enough in this place—it should consult. We are not going to be ambushed with a motion like that, any more than we will be by the opposition’s motion from this morning. So we will not be supporting that amendment.