Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

We need to suspend the Senate in order to discharge this bill because we are five days away from 11 November, Remembrance Day, when veterans from around the country will gather to remember those that have fallen in battle, those who were maimed in battle and the great joy of victory and peace. Having this bill on the Senate Notice Paper at that time would, I believe, bring our chamber into disrepute. We want to stand with veterans on Remembrance Day, and we are only days out from that day. We want to be united with our veterans on 11 November and tell them that, while the Labor Party may want to only remember you for 20 years, we, the Senate, are prepared to hold you in our hearts and remember you forever. To say that it's only two decades before you can actually limit—