Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I present a chart showing the proposed parliamentary sittings for 2024. Copies have been placed on the table, and I ask leave of the House to move that the proposed parliamentary sittings be agreed to.

Leave granted.

I move:

That the proposed parliamentary sittings for 2024 be agreed to.

This sitting pattern has been debated and adopted without dissent in the other place. It provides for 17 weeks of sitting for this House next year and 14 weeks, exclusive of estimates, in the other place. This is consistent with the average number of sitting weeks for each chamber since 2007, excluding in election years. This is very much business as usual. I make the point that we are tabling this in mid-October. We've been able to put together a sitting pattern that's been adopted without dissent in the other place very early in the latter part of 2023 so that members are able to have as much time as possible to plan their 2024. I commend the motion to the House.

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