House debates Bills
Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020; Third Reading
Trevor Evans Brisbane, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management
7:14 pm
I seek leave to read the third reading immediately.
Leave not granted.
I move:
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the motion for the third reading being moved without delay.
Stephen Jones Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer
7:15 pm
Time after time, members have come to the dispatch box or stood in their places and asked for the call to debate what is supposed to be a priority bill for the government.
Trevor Evans Brisbane, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management
I move:
That the question be now put.
Tony Smith Speaker
7:20 pm
The question now is that the motion moved by the minister to suspend standing orders be agreed to.
Trevor Evans Brisbane, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management
7:22 pm
I move:
That the bill be now read a third time.
Peta Murphy Dunkley, Australian Labor Party
This bill is about waste, and do you know what's been a waste? The last seven years of this government, where they've done absolutely nothing to facilitate recycling. I move:
That the debate be adjourned.
Tony Smith Speaker
7:27 pm
The question before the House still is this bill be now read a third time. I call the member for Griffith.
Terri Butler Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water
Paying $33 million for a $3 million plot of land is—
Trevor Evans Brisbane, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management
I move:
That the question be now put.
Tony Smith Speaker
7:29 pm
The question now is that this bill be read a third time.
Question agreed to.
Bill read a third time.