Senate debates Business

Suspension of Standing Orders


Claire Moore

Claire Moore Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Women

10:11 am

We on this side of the chamber accept the right of the government to determine the standing of bills in the daily running of this place. However, what we saw last week—a daily introduction of different rules for what was going to happen on the day—caused great confusion, as we saw building up to what on Thursday seemed much more like something that would happen in a Marx movie than what should happen in this Senate.

Nonetheless, what—

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