Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Very briefly: we won't be opposing this motion. We do understand the need for it and we don't want to stand in the way of that important legislation being debated. We just wanted to express our concern that one of the effects of this motion will be that we lose the open-ended adjournment debate this evening. We would ask the government please to consider restoring, by another motion tomorrow, the open-ended adjournment debate to tomorrow evening rather than this evening. The government will make their own response to that. I just wanted to be clear that, from the Greens' point of view, even though we're not going to oppose this motion, we are concerned that in effect it means the loss of a significant opportunity for all senators to make contributions to the adjournment debate.

Question agreed to.