Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

It will eat into time to debate that legislation. There is important national security legislation that's been listed for debate. It's been there all week, and we haven't been able to get to it because of repeated committee stages and repeated questions from members of the opposition and the Greens and that will be delayed further because of this motion.

Also, of course, there's the substance of these bills which ignores the fact that right now workers are being underpaid and ripped off and are not going to be fixed because the crossbench is working with the opposition to address some issues and not the rip-offs that are happening in the Australian workplace.