Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—This indicates that there is scope for reform in relation to private members’ business and in the way that private members’ bills are treated. In my time as a member of the Legislative Council in South Australia, there was a process for private members’ bills to be brought to a vote, time was set aside on a regular basis, and that system seemed to work quite well. The sky did not seem to fall in for the government’s legislative agenda in the South Australian parliament under either Liberal or Labor governments, and I would like to think that we could move forward with some substantive reforms in that way.

Debate adjourned.