Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. I welcome the opportunity to continue. The assertion that, somehow, parliament should not sit because the opposition is tired and is perhaps losing its will to live is quite ridiculous. There is legislation on the agenda for the parliament which has been provided to the opposition in advance. We are dealing with that quite adequately, as I understand it—with reasonable speed. I appreciate that from the opposition. We have a large number of bills we would like to bring back in if we could get some cooperation on them. (Time expired)