Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

If no other colleagues are contributing I will sum up. Senator Siewert, I acknowledge that this motion has come late in the piece. It does on occasion happen that there are changes that are agreed to only very shortly before the appropriate time to move the relevant motions. I do acknowledge what you have said about the short notice, but nothing was intended by that. It was simply a function of the fact that it is only very recently that this agreement has been reached. In terms of whips not mentioning anything at cross-party 'whips' last night, this was not a live proposition at that time. So there was no withholding of anything by whips.

In terms of the law enforcement legislation amendment bill, my understanding is that the bill is non-controversial, from consultations with groupings in the Senate, but, Senator Siewert, I obviously will take it at face value that there are issues the Greens have—