Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. Twice now I have sought leave to amend the sittings today to allow the proper business of this chamber to be properly dispatched. Now, clearly, some people want to make Christmas messages or something like that. This is a sequence of gagging the debate on these bills. Had the Labor Party been serious and sensible, they would have allowed the debate to have been extended as I have tried to do twice, leave for which was refused by the minister now seeking leave.