Barry O'Sullivan (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senator Macdonald, move:

That the Senate notes that on 6 September 2017, the Australian Labor Party declined to support a Senate motion calling for the development of a coherent Labor Party policy position regarding the future role of coal and coal-fired power stations in the national energy mix.

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Stephen Parry (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Labor will not be supporting this motion for obvious reasons. It really is a pathetic motion; it is a waste of the Senate's time and it diminishes this important place. If this, seriously, is how people want to use this time in the Senate, a time reserved for motions of importance—to reflect on a motion against one political party that was carried last week and then regurgitate it this week to make yet another point and add other senators in this place who support it—it is a disgrace. We do not support it. We do not support the waste of time and we do not support this pathetic motion. It's not the role of this time in the routine of business to have these silly, juvenile, pathetic motions moved in this place and we oppose it for those reasons.

Question agreed to.