Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

The government won't be supporting the suspension of standing orders, and I don't believe that Senator Nampijinpa Price seeks that either. She seeks a different outcome, which is to read out what she was denied in question time today. We raised our concerns about this. Senator Nampijinpa Price in question time today raised a question to the minister about something that occurred yesterday. It is fair and reasonable for the minister to be afforded time to understand the issues that Senator Nampijinpa Price seeks to prosecute. This motion seeks not only to avoid the concerns or the denial of tabling a document in question time—to get around that—but then requires the minister to come up tomorrow to provide an explanation on something that happened last night. It's abusing the forms and processes of this chamber.