Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Of course we will work with the Senate on how Fridays would be arranged, just as we worked with the opposition and the crossbench on how we would deal with this sitting week and as we dealt with last sitting week.

Senator Birmingham, Senator Gallagher has been very consultative, including with your colleague, on the Friday sitting this week. I would anticipate the same degree of consultation would be engaged in by the government—which, of course, is very different to what we saw from those opposite when in government. And on that basis, President, I ask that further questions be placed on notice.