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Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Leader of the House and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) (15:27): In conclusion, I say that the government would be happy to accommodate the two remaining opposition speakers who are not on the list.

Opposition members interjecting—

Mr ALBANESE: I am speaking to conclude the debate on the motion that I moved—

The SPEAKER: The Leader of the House has the call. He will ignore interjections—and the interjections will cease.

Mr ALBANESE: The opposition have of course never read a standing order in their lives. But we would be prepared to not have the MPI debate so as to allow the two remaining speakers to conclude. We on this side of the House make that offer to the opposition, very publicly. We will not seek to have further speakers on the debate. We would be happy to accommodate the opposition having those two speakers immediately, and then we could have the MPI debate in the remaining time if need be. But we would be very happy to accommodate what the Manager of Opposition Business requests—and it might be more useful than listening to the shadow Treasurer, who could not be bothered to turn up to the tax forum or the jobs forum last week.

Question agreed to.