House debates Business

Rearrangement

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 House of Representatives

Michael Sukkar

Michael Sukkar Deakin, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Social Services

12:03 pm

I move, as an amendment:

That clause (3) be omitted.

We object to a practice which this government has used consistently, and that is to remove the ability of the opposition to move amendments to motions like this. The first point to make is that it's utterly extraordinary in our view that the government is not leading this moment. It is extraordinary in the opposition's view that the government could not find it within itself to move this motion. On that basis, we believe that it's appropriate—

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