Business Statement

Next week in the House, priority will be given to the first readings of the Aviation Security Legislation Bill and the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Bill, and the remaining stages of the Disabled Persons Employment Promotion (Repeal and Related Matters) Bill, the Student Loan Scheme Amendment Bill (No 2), the Criminal Procedure Bill, and the Justices of the Peace Amendment Bill.

I thank the Leader of the House for that indication of what work the House might busy itself with in the next short while. But noting that the Order Paper continues to be very, very thin and to have not a lot that is controversial, therefore indicating that a Government is actually governing, I wonder whether he might therefore accede to my request last week to indicate when the many members on our side of the House who have waited for so many years now, will be able to offer their contributions on the Conservation (Protection of Trout as a Non-commercial Species) Amendment Bill. Some of them have speeches in their drawer that go back 10 years. They will need some time to update those speeches to bring them into the modern age. Can we expect that this bill will see the light of day in the next couple of weeks?

I am confident that members opposite can keep those drawers at exactly the same desks for the next 10 years.