Parliamentary Procedure

Sittings and Business

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (23:25): I move:

That the council at its rising adjourn until Thursday 1 April 2021 at 11am.

I note that that will be the last day for the Hon. Mr Parnell. In speaking briefly to this motion—we have a message to receive as well—just to outline to members, we are sitting at 11am. It is the government's intention, subject to the Minister for Human Services' successful negotiations, we hope, with the Labor Party and crossbenchers in the morning, that if the restrictive practices legislation can be concluded in about a hour and a half tomorrow morning, we will proceed with that at 11.

I am advised that, whilst there are a long series of pages of amendments, there are half a dozen substantive issues. If it is clear which way things are going, and we can do that in an hour and a half approximately, we will commence that at 11am, hoping to leave 12.30 onwards for some legislation in which the Hon. Ms Bonaros has a great interest, as does the government, which is the superannuation bill, which we are advised everyone is either supporting or not opposing.

There are no amendments, so we are hoping to do that in the remaining half an hour before the lunch break. It is the government's intention to have question time, and then a number of us will say generally nice things about the Hon. Mr Parnell, and we are hoping to adjourn the council at around 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to allow the staff to get off to, hopefully, a relatively early commencement to the Easter break.

Motion carried.