Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That, on Thursday, 19 November 2009:

(a)

the hours of meeting shall be 9.30 am to 6.30 pm and 7 pm to adjournment;

(b)

consideration of general business and consideration of committee reports, government responses and Auditor-General’s reports under standing order 62(1) and (2) shall not be proceeded with;

(c)

the routine of business from 12.45 pm till not later than 2 pm shall be government business only, and from not later than 4.45 pm shall be the government business order of the day relating to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills––second reading speeches only;

(d)

the routine of business from 3.30 pm till not later than 4.30 pm shall be valedictory statements;

(e)

divisions may take place after 4.30 pm;

(f)

the question for the adjournment of the Senate shall not be proposed until a motion for the adjournment is moved by a minister; and

(g)

if the Senate is sitting at midnight, the sitting of the Senate be suspended till 9.30 am on Friday, 20 November 2009.