Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring on Monday, 30 March 2026:

(1) the following bills being presented and after the second reading speech of the Minister on each bill, debate being adjourned until a later hour:

(a) Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Strategic Reserve) Bill 2026;

(b) Appropriation (Fuel Security Response) Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026; and

(c) Appropriation (Fuel Security Response) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026;

(2) when the order of the day for the resumption of debate on the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Strategic Reserve) Bill 2026 is called on, a cognate debate taking place with Appropriation (Fuel Security Response) Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026 and Appropriation (Fuel Security Response) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026;

(3) immediately following questions without notice and any documents presented by the Speaker or Leader of the House, if the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Strategic Reserve) Bill 2026, Appropriation (Fuel Security Response) Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026 or Appropriation (Fuel Security Response) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026 have not passed, debate to resume immediately;

(4) at no later than 5.30 pm, any questions necessary to complete the remaining stages of each bill being put, with any message from the Governor-General under standing order 147 being announced, and any detail amendments circulated being treated as if they had been moved [together] by the Member proposing them; and

(5) any variation to this arrangement being made only on a motion moved by a Minister.

For the information of members, these are the bills that were announced over the weekend to be introduced by the Minister for Climate Change and Energy and the Treasurer. There will be a cognate debate on all three bills together. Once they're introduced, we'll go straight to the debate, obviously with the relevant representative of the opposition speaking first.

We are not curtailing individual speaking times; we're leaving them as they would ordinarily be. But, to make sure that we can get legislation across to the Senate for tomorrow, the bill will go through all remaining stages in consecutive votes at 5.30 pm. If amendments have been circulated, they will be taken as though they have been moved and voted on as well. I commend the resolution to the chamber.

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