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

The opposition had the opportunity just moments ago to assist us to close this debate and move on to those bills, and instead, as they did all of last week, they enabled filibustering from the crossbench in order to stop government business from proceeding. We should get on with it, we should not be entertaining nonsense motions that have no binding effect on the House of Representatives and we should deal with those important matters of national and personal security that the government has put on the agenda for today.