Senate debates

Monday, 15 February 2021

Bills

Royal Commissions Amendment (Confidentiality Protections) Bill 2020; Third Reading

11:52 am

Photo of Scott RyanScott Ryan (President) Share this | | Hansard source

As no amendments to the bill have been circulated, I shall call the minister to move the third reading unless any senator requires that the bill be considered in Committee of the Whole.

Photo of Jordon Steele-JohnJordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That this bill be now read a third time.

Question agreed to.

Bill read a third time.

Photo of Scott RyanScott Ryan (President) Share this | | Hansard source

It being past 11.50, pursuant to the order agreed to earlier today, the Senate shall suspend until the ringing of the bells to allow senators to attend the Prime Minister's statement to mark the anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generation.

Sitting suspended from 11:52 to 12:40