Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a one-minute statement.

Leave granted.

Very briefly, Mr President, if I may address the crossbench. The homily that we just heard is from a senator who voted time and time again to ram through 52 bills without a single word of discussion in this place, and with the support of the Greens. She is now trying to say: 'Proper process demands this.' That is hypocrisy writ large. What has normally been the case, Mr President, is that, when extra days are set aside, they are set aside for the purposes of government business, standard practice, including question time and take note of answers. I commend the amendment and the motion to the Senate.