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

This is a motion to extend sitting hours this week to deal with a raft of government legislation, including the legislation affecting the Northern Territory and Indigenous communities throughout Australia and the very important Water Bill, as well as other legislation. I make the point that this year is one of the shortest calendars in decades for sitting weeks. If the Senate were being adequately managed by the government, it would be sitting more weeks. It would not be sitting late into the night with open-ended sittings on Thursdays, but would have more sittings with time for all members to properly address legislation, rather than having extended hours and then the guillotine being dropped, as we are going to see repeatedly this week, to convenience a government struggling on its way to an election.

Question agreed to.