Urgency

I move, That urgency be accorded to the introduction and passing through all stages of the Bail (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill; the committee stage of the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill, the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024–25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Bill, the Sentencing (Reform) Amendment Bill, and the Customer and Product Data Bill; and the third reading of the Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Bill and the Regulatory Systems (Economic Development) Amendment Bill.

The Government’s moving urgency this afternoon not with any pleasure but because it is necessary in order to advance the bail amendment changes that we want Parliament to deal with as quickly as possible, and for legal reasons we want to come into effect as quickly as possible. I note that copies of the bill have been provided to the Opposition in order to allow them to have forewarning about what is coming, given the urgency and significance of the bill.

Given that if the House went into urgency just for the Bail (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill, it would then lift immediately following that, we have added some other items into the motion so that we can continue the ordinary sitting day, and it was meant to be an extended hours day tonight into tomorrow morning anyway. There are four committee stages that we want the House to deal with today, anyway, and into tomorrow morning, and then there’s the third reading of the regulatory tidy-up bills, which I think are relatively uncontroversial.

The Government’s intention will be to lift the House before 1 o’clock tomorrow so that a members’ day can still occur. In other words, it’s essentially an ordinary Tuesday, except for the fact that we are expediting the passage of urgent amendments to the Bail Act that I hope the House will approve of. Thank you, sir.