Rearrangement

Katy Gallagher

I will be moving the rearrangement motion in the Notice Paper. We will be seeking some slight amendments to that motion to allow for further time, considering the time we lost this morning to the earlier debate, to push out the times for the first votes on the bills listed in the notice of motion; I think they're being circulated now.

The bills we had listed to be considered at 11 am will now be considered at 1 pm because of the time we lost this morning to that earlier debate. The bills that would have been put at 1.30 pm will be moved to 4.30 pm to allow for more time and debate. The tranche of bills outlined at subsection (8), instead of being put at 5.30 pm, will be put at 7 pm. This responds to the concerns of those opposite and the crossbench, to have time to speak to those bills. The amended motion also seeks to remove the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024, as we haven't been able to reach the agreement on electoral reform we had been seeking with the coalition—no surprises there that we weren't able to do that at the last moment. So we are removing that and inserting a couple of other Treasury bills, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions and Other Measures) Bill 2023 and the Superannuation (Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions) Imposition Bill 2023, to be considered in their place.

As I said in the earlier debate on Senator Lambie's motion to suspend, we have moved this motion because these bills need to get done and we have been frustrated this year in a minority chamber where we accept we do not have the votes to bring things to a conclusion and to deal with things in a timely way. This is, at the end of the year, our stocktake of important bills we would like to get done. We think there is a lot of agreement across this list and these bills can be dealt with pretty promptly. I think there is agreement on a number of bills, and where there isn't agreement with one part of the Senate there may be agreement with the other. We have support from the opposition for the social media reform and the migration bills, and we believe we have support for bills like Future Made in Australia from another grouping in the chamber.

It is a shame that we have got to this point. It's not unusual for an end-of-year motion to be moved. When we were in opposition, we tried to work constructively to get a whole range of bills through where we could. Sometimes it requires longer sittings of the Senate. This is our request to the Senate, acknowledging that we will have to win each piece of legislation on its merits, to deal with as much of this as possible. If there are bills here that don't get up, if we put them to the Senate and the Senate votes them down, then that's the view of the Senate. I'm hoping that a range of bills in this motion today will be supported by the Senate and that, hopefully, some common sense will prevail—that we will be able to progress a number of important pieces of legislation through today.

We would have preferred this to have been more evenly spread through the year, but we have seen weeks where the opposition have refused to pass anything, where there have been long filibusters—

Sarah Henderson

That's not true.

Katy Gallagher

Yes, it is true. It is absolutely true. We have sat here and have not been able to progress one piece of legislation, and that has built up a bank of bills that we would like to deal with before the Senate gets up for the year. There are still a whole range of bills that we will come back to in February. Most of them should be dealt with very quickly so we can progress them through the Senate today.

The amendments to the motion are minor in nature. They remove a bill and insert another one, and there's a longer period of time to allow for debate throughout the day on different tranches of legislation. This is the government's view. These are our priority bills. We would like as many of them as possible to be done. We've already had a good week in the sense that we've got Help to Buy through, we've got wages for early childhood educators through and we've got funding for schools through. All of these things were important. We got that done in the first part of this week, but we believe the Senate should have the opportunity to deal with the remaining bills throughout the course of today.

Obviously we are happy to continue to talk to people throughout the day as that motion progresses, but we do believe that putting some order and process around these bills so that everyone knows what we are hoping to deal with is the best way forward. I commend the motion to the Senate.

Sue Lines

Is leave granted to have the motion considered in the revised format as outlined by the minister?

Leave granted.

Katy Gallagher

I move the motion as amended:

That—

(1) The order of the Senate of 27 June 2024 dividing the Treasury Laws Amendment (Responsible Buy Now Pay Later and Other Measures) Bill 2024 into two bills no longer apply and the orders of the day for the consideration of the resulting bills be discharged from the Notice Paper.

(2) Consideration of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Responsible Buy Now Pay Later and Other Measures) Bill 2024 resume with consideration of the bill as read a first time.

(3) The following bills may be taken together for their remaining stages:

Treasury Laws Amendment (Responsible Buy Now Pay Later and Other Measures) Bill 2024

Capital Works (Build to Rent Misuse Tax) Bill 2024.

(4) The hours of meeting today be 9 am till adjournment and the routine of business be as follows:

(a) consideration of the bills listed in paragraph (5);

(b) at 11.15 am, notices of motion;

(c) consideration of a report from the Selection of Bills Committee;

(d) postponement and rearrangement of business;

(e) formal motions;

(f) not later than one hour after the giving of notices, consideration of the bills listed in paragraph (6);

(g) at 2 pm, questions;

(h) consideration of the bills listed in paragraph (7);

(i) consideration of the bills listed in paragraph (8); and

(j) consideration of the bills listed in paragraph (9).

(5) Bills be considered in the following order and the questions on all remaining stages of the bills be put at 1 pm:

(a) Treasury Laws Amendment (2024 Tax and Other Measures No. 1) Bill 2024;

(b) Treasury Laws Amendment (Reserve Bank Reforms) Bill 2023;

(c) Superannuation (Objective) Bill 2023;

(d) Treasury Laws Amendment (Mergers and Acquisitions Reform) Bill 2024;

(e) Commonwealth Entities (Payment Surcharges) Bill 2024

Commonwealth Entities (Payment Surcharges) Tax (Imposition) Bill 2024

Commonwealth Entities (Payment Surcharges) (Consequential Provisions and Other Matters) Bill 2024;

(f) Treasury Laws Amendment (Responsible Buy Now Pay Later and Other Measures) Bill 2024;

Capital Works (Build to Rent Misuse Tax) Bill 2024.

(6) Bills be considered in the following order and the questions on all remaining stages being put at 4.30 pm:

(a) Administrative Review Tribunal (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2024;

(b) Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Amendment Bill 2024;

(c) Crimes Amendment (Strengthening the Criminal Justice Response to Sexual Violence) Bill 2024;

(d) Family Law Amendment Bill 2024;

(e) Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024;

(f) Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024;

(g) Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024; and

(h) Migration Amendment Bill 2024

Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024

Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2024.

(7) The following bills be considered and the questions on all remaining stages be put at 5.30 pm:

Treasury Laws Amendment (Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions and Other Measures) Bill 2023

Superannuation (Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions) Imposition Bill 2023

(8) The following bills be considered and the questions on all remaining stages be put at 7 pm:

Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024

Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024

Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Charges) Bill 2024

Future Made in Australia Bill 2024

Future Made in Australia (Omnibus Amendments No. 1) Bill 2024.

(9) Bills be considered in the following order and the questions on all remaining stages be put after 15 minutes of consideration on each bill:

(a) Communications Legislation Amendment (Regional Broadcasting Continuity) Bill 2024;

(b) Crown References Amendment Bill 2023;

(c) Customs Amendment (ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area Second Protocol Implementation and Other Measures) Bill 2024;

(d) Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals and Other Measures) Bill 2024;

(e) Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Amendment Bill 2024;

(f) Migration Amendment (Strengthening Sponsorship and Nomination Processes) Bill 2024;

(g) Navigation Amendment Bill 2024;

(h) Universities Accord (National Student Ombudsman) Bill 2024;

(i) Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024;

(j) Veterans' Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Bill 2024; and

(k) Sydney Airport Demand Management Amendment Bill 2024.

(10) Paragraphs (5) to (9) operate as limitations of debate under standing order 142;

(11) Speaking times relating to any questions proposed in the Senate or in the committee of the whole in relation to any bill listed in this motion be 5 minutes;

(12) Divisions may take place between 1.30 pm and 2 pm, and after 4.30 pm, until consideration of the bills to which this order applies has concluded.

(13) The Senate adjourn without debate on the motion of a minister.

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