Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I won't hold up the chamber unnecessarily. I just place on the record that, as the Leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt, has said regularly and as we have said in this chamber today, we will take a constructive role in the response to what many members have described as an unprecedented situation and we will be supporting this legislation so that the machinery of government can continue in the event that, as in fact has happened, the budget is postponed and in the event that this parliament is not able to resume under its previously agreed sitting arrangements. So we'll be supporting these bills.