David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Indeed. On suspension, the question before the house is: what should be more important, this suspension motion or the actual list of business before the house? And what's No. 1 on the list of business before the house? The very bill that the suspension motion is saying we're not speaking to. It couldn't be more important. So I thank you for your direction, Acting Deputy President, and, through that, your endorsement of the position we're taking about the Birmingham double-pike belly flop that is being proposed here.

We have said—and I would like to be in a position to say them in more detail—the very real concerns we have about the principles behind this bill. The extraordinary amount of power that has been—