Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That—

(1)   On Tuesday, 19 June, Thursday, 21 June, and Tuesday, 26 June 2012, any proposal pursuant to standing order 75 shall not be proceeded with.

(2)   On Wednesday, 20 June and 27 June 2012, consideration of government documents shall not be proceeded with, and instead the routine of business shall be government business only.

(3)   Divisions may take place on:

  (a)   Thursday, 21 June and 28 June 2012, after 4.30 pm; and

  (b)   Monday, 25 June 2012, before 12.30 pm.

(4)   On Tuesday, 19 June and 26 June 2012:

  (a)   the hours of meeting shall be 12.30 pm to 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm to 10.40 pm;

  (b)   the routine of business from not later than 7.30 pm shall be government business only; and

  (c)   the question for the adjournment of the Senate shall be proposed at 10 pm.

(5)   On Thursday, 21 June 2012:

  (a)   the hours of meeting shall be 9.30 am to 6 pm and 7 pm to 10.40 pm;

  (b)   the routine of business from not later than 7 pm shall be government business only; and

  (c)   the question for the adjournment of the Senate shall be proposed at 10 pm.

(6)   The Senate shall sit on Friday, 22 June 2012, and that:

  (a)   the hours of meeting shall be 9.30 am to 3.40 pm;

  (b)   the routine of business shall be:

     (i)   notices of motion, and

     (ii)   government business only; and

  (c)   the question for the adjournment of the Senate shall be proposed at 3 pm.

(7)   On Wednesday, 27 June 2012, consideration of the business before the Senate be interrupted at approximately 5 pm, but not so as to interrupt a senator speaking, to enable Senator Whish-Wilson to make his first speech without any question before the chair.

(8)   The following government business orders of the day shall have precedence over all government business, be called on in the following order and be considered under a limitation of time, and that the time allotted for all remaining stages be as follows:

  (9)   Paragraph (8) of this order operate as an allocation of time under standing order 142.

This motion aims to structure Senate debate on legislation over the next week so that the budget and other critical bills can be passed in these sittings while still providing opportunity for debating private senators' business, general business and several MPIs. The Senate was scheduled to sit only three weeks in these winter sittings. This is a relatively short period for the major pieces of legislation that arise from the budget—