Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The time constraint is the bill itself includes a deadline for abolition. Because of the nature of this card, there are people with Afterpay accounts connected to them. So if it is to be abolished, the Senate will need to deal with it in the following sitting fortnight. For those who follow closely the Senate agenda, which I haven't done previously in my life, but I'm doing now, they principally do their government business on a Monday. So I will be hoping to get that through tomorrow. I will be looking at the speaking list. If the speaking list is long, rather than gag the debate, I will declare the bill urgent and we will have a vote as to whether or not that is the case. I remind people—

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