House debates
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Bills
Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Bill 2016; Third Reading
12:58 pm
Ian Goodenough (Moore, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
In accordance with the resolution agreed to, the question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to.
Question agreed to.
Bill read a third time.
Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Mr Deputy Speaker, on indulgence: on behalf of the opposition, I think it is an outrage that the government has feigned it is doing something in this session by moving these procedural motions. This is a government that purports to care about Northern Australia—
Ian Goodenough (Moore, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I call the Leader of the House.
Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
It is very disorderly for the member for Hunter to pretend that he wants to speak on indulgence, which is usually the case with somebody on a personal matter, and then use it as an opportunity to slag the government. We now have to move to the address-in-reply. I am very much looking forward to the member for Lingiari's speech. I thought it was his valedictory speech! I cannot believe he is running again! But I am looking forward to hearing what he has to say.
Ian Goodenough (Moore, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I call the member for Lingiari.
Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for External Territories) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Anyone who might have been observing the last two days would have observed them as being high farce—extremely high farce. We just saw another exhibition of it today, with the Leader of the House, who is an affable sort of character—but now he is going to have me sit down. What does he want now?
Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Mr Deputy Speaker, also as part of the procedures for the previous bill, I think the Clerk will give you the papers for the consequential amendments bill as well, and we need to move through the same stages we moved through in the last couple of minutes for this other bill, the consequential amendments bill.