A Bigger Picture by Turnbull Malcolm;

Author:Turnbull, Malcolm;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Published: 2020-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

As the exhausted senators completed the debate on 18 March and passed the Senate Voting Reform Bill, they knew the Senate was adjourning for seven weeks, as was the House. Parliament wouldn’t come back until 10 May for budget week, meaning there was no time at all for the ABCC bill to be considered and rejected before 11 May, the last day I could call a double-dissolution election. So the CFMEU could rest easy … there was no way I could get the ABCC bill passed. We’d run out of time.

Or had we?

I made a few notes in the car on the way to Government House on Monday 21 March:

Very nervous. Butterflies. Most unlike me. This is the day we spring the trap. The Senate has now passed the voting reform legislation under the impression that we have run out of time to deal with the ABCC Bill before the latest date to call a DD. So we will prorogue5 parliament and call it back on the 18th of April, so the Senators have a full three weeks to debate, and presumably reject ABCC.

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