Speaker’s Rulings — Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill—Process

Members, before I call the next bill, there’s two points that I’d like to make. One is that, as with the previous stage of this bill, if members wish to have one, there will be a personal vote, and it will be treated through the debate as a conscience issue.

The other point I’d like to seek the leave of the House on: I’ve had a couple of members who indicated that they’d like to make short contributions. What I will do is seek the leave of the House for this to be a two-hour debate with speeches of not more than 10 minutes, so that if there’s time left from shorter speeches it can be used by other members. Is there any objection to that course of action? There appears to be none.