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Mr BURKE (Watson—Minister for the Arts, Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Cyber Security, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Leader of the House) (16:04): I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring on Tuesday, 18 August 2026: (1) immediately following the second reading of the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026: (a) the bill being considered in detail and taken as a whole, with any detail amendments to be moved together as, one set for the government, one set for the opposition and one set per crossbench Member, unless a Minister requires otherwise, and: (i) one question being put on any government amendments; (ii) one question being put on any opposition amendments; (iii) separate questions being put on any sets of amendments moved by crossbench Members; and (iv) a separate question being put that the bill [as amended] be agreed to; (b) debate on any amendments provided for under paragraph 1(a) being limited to up to ten minutes for each question unless a Minister requires the debate to be extended; (c) at 5.30 pm, if consideration of the bill has not concluded, any amendments circulated [that have not been considered] being treated as if they had been moved [together] by the Member proposing them, unless a Minister requires otherwise, and all questions required to complete the detail stage being put immediately; and (d) the question being put immediately on the third reading; (2) immediately following proceedings on the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026, the order of the day for the resumption of the debate on the National Self-exclusion Register (Cost Recovery Levy) Amendment Bill 2026 being called on and: (a) any second reading amendments circulated being treated as if they had been moved by the Member proposing them; (b) the questions being put immediately on any second reading amendments and on the second reading of the bill; (c) the bill being considered in detail and taken as a whole, with any detail amendments circulated being treated as if they had been moved [together] by the Member proposing them, with: (i) one question being put immediately on any government amendments; (ii) one question being put immediately on any opposition amendments; and (iii) separate questions being put immediately on any sets of amendments moved by crossbench Members; and (iv) a separate question being put that the bill [as amended] be agreed to; and (d) the question being put immediately on the third reading; (3) immediately following proceedings on the National Self-exclusion Register (Cost Recovery Levy) Amendment Bill 2026, the order of the day for the resumption of the debate on the News Journalism Payments Bill 2026 being called on and a cognate debate taking place with the News Journalism Payments (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2026, News Media Bargaining (Administration) Bill 2026, News Media Bargaining Charge Bill 2026 and the Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media Bargaining) (Consequential) Bill 2026, and proceedings on the bills having priority until 7.30 pm; (4) at 8 pm, notwithstanding standing order 31, the adjournment debate being interrupted, and debate on the News Journalism Payments Bill 2026 and four related bills having priority: (a) until the bills have proceeded through all stages; or (b) 10 pm; or (c) a later time specified by a Minister prior to 10 pm; at which point, the House immediately adjourning until 9 am on Wednesday, 19 August; and (5) any variation to this arrangement being made only on a motion moved by a Minister.

For the benefit of members, I'll explain what this means for tomorrow. Obviously today we finish at 4.30 pm because of a motion I moved last week. I have consulted with the Manager of Opposition Business on this, and I thank him for the consultation.

At midday tomorrow we will vote on the second reading amendments and the second reading of the bill relating to gambling. Given the need to finish the bill before 6.30 pm to make sure that we can conduct divisions here and we can get it across to the Senate, we need to time manage the remainder of the debate. I'm anticipating eight or nine sets of amendments on those bills.

One set of what we will be doing is having government amendments, opposition amendments and then crossbench amendments—the normal thing of one government, one opposition, one crossbench. A minister can allow for someone to move a second. So, if someone's in that particular circumstance, they can let me know.

After the MPI, we'll then return to consideration in detail. On looking at the time currently, particularly by dealing with this now, this will give us an extra half-hour tomorrow. This is why I'm doing it now.

It means we should actually have proper time to debate all the amendments before we hit 5.30. If we were to hit 5.30, then, effectively, everything that's been circulated will be taken as having been moved, and we would then go into consecutive votes until we finish the entire package. That entire package involves the debate we've been conducting cognately, as well as the additional bill that was introduced to the House this morning.

Once we have finished those bills, we will then move on to the debate on the news journalism payment bills. We will stay on that until 7.30. Then we'll pretend we're having an adjournment debate—five-minute speeches until eight—and we'll then go back to the news bargaining code bills.

I don't know how many people will want to speak on that, but we'll keep the House going until 10 pm if speakers require us to do that. Then I expect it would be on Wednesday morning that we would deal with the remaining stages of that particular piece of legislation. I commend the suspension to the House.

Question agreed to.