Consideration resumed from 17 February, on motion by Mr Slipper:

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill read a second time.

Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER (Hon. I.R. Causley)—Is it the wish of the House to proceed to the third reading forthwith? Is leave granted?

Mr Kelvin Thomson —No, Mr Deputy Speaker.

Mr Slipper —Mr Deputy Speaker, there was an arrangement between the opposition and the government that the two bills in the cognate debate would be put without further debate and without further divisions on the basis that the honourable member for Denison was allowed 10 minutes to speak, and he has spoken. This is the arrangement between the government and the opposition. If I have to move closure, I will, but it would be good if the opposition could adhere to the arrangements that were made between the Leader of the House and the honourable member for Denison.

Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER —Is leave granted?

Mr Kelvin Thomson —What is going on here is that the government is endeavouring to guillotine through legislation to avoid appropriate parliamentary scrutiny. If the parliamentary secretary believes that this arrangement covers both pieces of legislation, we will reluctantly acquiesce to that. But it ought to be put on record that we have many speakers and many issues to raise in the consideration in detail stage and those speakers really ought to have been entitled to speak and raise questions at that stage about the way the government has handled this issue of fuel substitution.