Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I want to draw to the attention of the chamber and anybody who's listening what actually just happened. We have a process in this place called selection of bills that occurs on a Wednesday night every week, where all parties have the opportunity to come in and put their position in relation to bills that are going to be debated. At the end of that process, we usually reach agreement or we don't reach agreement on particular bills.

Last night, a very respectful selection of bills process saw the government, the opposition, the Greens and the crossbench all agree to the selection of bills report that was put forward this morning by Senator Urquhart. Approximately two minutes before the agreed selection of bills report was to be put before this chamber, the Greens, the Labor Party and, interestingly, Senator Tyrrell and Senator Pocock—I'm not sure they actually knew what they were doing, but, if they did, they could be included in my complaint—came into this place and changed an agreement of last night.