Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I move the motion standing in my name:

That the days of meeting of the Senate for 2019 be as follows:

Autumn sittings:

Tuesday, 12 February to Thursday, 14 February

Budget sittings:

Tuesday, 2 April to Thursday, 4 April

Autumn sittings (2):

Monday, 15 April to Thursday, 18 April

Winter sittings:

Monday, 13 May to Thursday, 16 May

Monday, 17 June to Thursday, 20 June

Monday, 24 June to Thursday, 27 June

Spring sittings:

Monday, 12 August to Thursday, 15 August

Monday, 19 August to Thursday, 22 August

Monday, 9 September to Thursday, 12 September

Monday, 16 September to Thursday, 19 September

Monday, 14 October to Thursday, 17 October

Monday, 11 November to Thursday, 14 November

Monday, 25 November to Thursday, 28 November

Monday, 2 December to Thursday, 5 December.

This motion seeks to put in place the sitting schedule for the Senate for next year, as is the orthodox and conventional practice in this place. The Senate sits in alignment with the House of Representatives sitting, with the exception of estimates hearings, when they occur on days that are House-only sitting days. And colleagues would obviously be aware that the budget sitting week is down to be earlier than is usually the case, for obvious reasons of which we are all aware. I commend the sitting schedule to colleagues.