Senate debates

Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Business

Rearrangement

9:44 am

Photo of Katy GallagherKaty Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That on Wednesday, 6 December 2023—

(a) the hours of meeting be 9 am till adjournment;

(b) subject to paragraph (c), bills be considered under limitations of debate under standing order 142, with time allotted as follows:

(i) Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Repudiation) Bill 2023—

second reading commencing immediately after the conclusion of the consideration of private senators' bills, for 60 minutes, and

all remaining stages, for 90 minutes

(ii) Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures) Bill 2023—

second reading questions to be put immediately after the preceding item, and

all remaining stages, for 30 minutes,

(iii) Identity Verification Services Bill 2023 and Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023—commencing immediately after the preceding item, with the questions on all remaining stages to be put after 30 minutes, and

(iv) Interactive Gambling Amendment (Credit and Other Measures) Bill 2023—questions on all remaining stages to be put immediately after the preceding item;

(c) the arrangements in paragraph (b) be interrupted as necessary to allow the following items of business to take place:

(i) at 1.30 pm, statements pursuant to standing order 57(4),

(ii) at 2 pm, questions,

(iii) motions to take note of answers,

(iv) notices of motion,

(v) petitions,

(vi) postponement and rearrangement of business,

(vii) formal motions—discovery of formal business,

(viii) a proposal under standing order 75 submitted by Senator Hanson or Senator Roberts, and

(ix) a proposal under standing order 75 submitted by Senator David Pocock;

(d) divisions may take place between 12.15 pm and 1.30 pm and after 6.30 pm; and

(e) the Senate adjourn without debate after consideration of the bills to which this order relates is concluded.

And I move:

That the question be now put.

Question agreed to.

Photo of Glenn SterleGlenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

The question now is that the motion be agreed to.

9:45 am

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | | Hansard source

I ask for the question to be split so that paragraph (b)(iii), referring to the Identity Verification Services Bill 2023 and a related bill, is put separately.

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

I seek leave to make a short statement of no more than one minute.

Leave granted.

I won't need the full minute, I believe, and I thank the Senate for its courtesy. I just want to place on the record that, from the Australian Greens' point of view, we do not support the gagging and the rushing through of the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Repudiation) Bill 2023; nor do we support the gagging and the rushing through of the Identity Verification Services Bill 2023 and the Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023, although we will support the motion on the basis that we do support the other parts of the motion.

Photo of Glenn SterleGlenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

Now I will go back to putting Senator Roberts' motion to the Senate. Would you like to put it again, Senator Roberts, so it's clear for everyone?

9:46 am

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | | Hansard source

I want the question to be split so that paragraph (b)(iii) is voted on separately.

Photo of Glenn SterleGlenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

That is the question that I will put.

Question agreed to.

So now I'll put the remaining parts to the floor.

Question agreed to.

Senator Roberts?

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | | Hansard source

Are we going to vote on this motion?

Photo of Glenn SterleGlenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

We just did. The Senate just did.

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | | Hansard source

And we voted to split it?

Photo of Glenn SterleGlenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

Yes. And then you lost that.