Claire Moore (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Fifield, it is the right of the government to bring that forward in your calm, reasonable and adult way. And then this chamber will look at the proposal and see what we need.

We are going through the schedule we have in front of us; we will continue to work with that. This morning, when there was another chance for the government to bring forward an hours motion, it did not happen. It was not put on the red to say this was going to happen today. What has happened instead is we have been going through the red and when we came in for question time, instead of moving into question time, we have been hit with another attempt to change the hours. Mr President, that is not the way business is done in this place. And then to turn around and accuse people across the chamber and say that senators in this place are lazy and are not taking their job seriously is but a pretence and does not reflect well on any member of this chamber. (Time expired)