Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

on indulgence—I have an issue to raise with respect to today's program. Item No. 4 listed on the blue is the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Bill 2015. I raise now, because we do not want to disrupt the orderly proceedings of the day, that briefings for the opposition on that bill have not yet concluded. We certainly hope that we are in a situation where, by the time the bill is brought on—and the time of day it is to be considered is not clear from the program—it is not done so prior to the opposition being ready to commence debate and to determine that the amendments do in fact match up with the bipartisan recommendations of the committee.