Rex Patrick (SA, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source

The chamber will note that I actually have a motion on the Notice Paper to reduce the time we spend on motions. We are spending an inordinate amount of time on motions. The Senate has a lot of work to do that directly affects our constituents—work on introducing bills, on scrutiny, on debating legislation and on committee work. In some sense, what's happening here today simply illustrates why we need to deal with this. I get that motions are important, but we need to be very considered in the way in which we allocate time to this particular part of business. So Centre Alliance will be abstaining from the rest of the affairs related to this motion.