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    14   universal periodic review —MINISTERIAL STATEMENT

Mr McClelland (Attorney-General), by leave, made a ministerial statement relating to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review and presented the following document:

Draft report of the working group on the Universal Periodic Review—Australia—Geneva, 24 January to 4 February 2011.

Suspension of standing and sessional orders—Time for speech

Mr McClelland, by leave, moved—That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent Ms J. Bishop (Deputy Leader of the Opposition) speaking for a period not exceeding seven minutes.

Question—put and passed.

Ms J. Bishop addressed the House.