Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) | Hansard source

They have been listed, Senator Birmingham, and you have blocked. You don't want to see the government progress with its agenda. That's fine; that's politics, but we also have a right to put a list of our priorities before the chamber and say, 'We would like to get these done. Vote yes or no, but vote. Don't block; don't be a barrier to our agenda.' That is what we are asking the Senate to do. We will sit as late as the Senate likes. We will work across the chamber to make sure people have enough time.

I have sat in this place on long marathon sittings of the Senate under arrangements you brought in. They are not ideal, but sometimes they are necessary in order to progress important legislation, whether it be Future Made in Australia, the migration bills or some of the important Treasury bills that have been blocked and stuck in this chamber for more than a year, and many of them have. So we have put before the chamber—