Senate debates Bills
Landholders' Right to Refuse (Coal Seam Gas) Bill 2011; Second Reading
Mitch Fifield Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate
11:53 am
There was no agreement that this particular piece of legislation would come to a vote today. There are on occasion informal arrangements reached between the parties, but there was not one with this particular piece of legislation. Senator Cormann is only part-way through his contribution. On the circulated speakers list there is still Senator Xenophon and Senator Williams to speak. So I do not see what has happened today as being in any way controversial or out of the ordinary. It is a piece of legislation that is being appropriately debated.
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