Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025, Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025

Mr TIM WILSON (Goldstein) (11:58): I move that so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent me from moving the following motion immediately: That the House (1) notes that, during the matter-of-public-importance discussion on 5 February 2026, the Minister for Small Business suggested that 33, 426 small— The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Young ): Order!

If you're going to move the suspension of standing orders, it has to be relevant to the bill in question. What you're doing was relevant to the previous bill, which has now been finished. We've now moved on to the next bill.

Mr Tim Wilson: Sorry, Deputy Speaker, but we haven't commenced with a speaker. Dr Leigh: We've got a speaker. Mr Tim Wilson: I can suspend at any time, Deputy Speaker.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: We've called on the next item. Once the clerk has called on that item of business—we're now on that item of business.