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Senator ASKEW (Tasmania—Chief Opposition Whip in the Senate) (16:20): At the request of Senator McKenzie, I move: (1) That the Senate notes that: (a) in accordance with Senate resolution 44, government responses to committee reports are required to be tabled within 3 months of a report being tabled; (b) the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee tabled its report, Bank closures in regional Australia: Protecting the future of regional banking, on 24 May 2024; (c) a government response has not been tabled even though it was due by 24 August 2024; (d) on 31 July 2025 the Chair of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee wrote to the Treasurer requesting that the Government table a government response by the end of August 2025; and (e) a government response has not been tabled.

(2) That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Treasurer, by no later than 10 am on Monday, 3 November 2025, the outstanding government response to the report of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee entitled Bank closures in regional Australia: Protecting the future of regional banking. Question agreed to.