Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I am sure you are interested. What the motion also points out is that, when late in the year the government brings on extra sittings of parliament—because it has failed to sit adequately earlier in the year—to debate pieces of legislation which have been in the pipeline for months, without any proper reference to the other parties, who have no say in it, it creates a dilemma. There are two Greens senators, for example, who want to be at that sitting tomorrow but who effectively cannot go, while the President swans off to it by this process of seeking leave.