Senator WATT (Queensland) (20:36): As my children sometimes say: 'How embarrassment.' How embarrassment that we can't even make it to the end of the second sitting day of this new term before this government runs out of an agenda. They've got not one piece of legislation ready to go. You can just imagine Senator Cormann's office this afternoon. They've worked out that they're going to run out of legislation by about 8.30 tonight—two hours before we're actually supposed to wind up on the second sitting day of the entire term. They've thought, 'Oh, jeez, we better get something organised—we better send out an email.' So they've got an email out to Senator Paterson, Senator Stoker, Senator McKenzie and the others saying: 'Jeez, guys, can you write up a speech? We've run out of legislation to talk about. We need you to get up and blabber on for 20 minutes each just to filibuster until we can get through to tomorrow.' What's going to happen tomorrow? You know what: tomorrow you haven't got to fill two hours—you've got to fill an entire day! You won't have a hope! Should we just call off parliament by about, what, two o'clock tomorrow afternoon? You will have completely run out of stuff. If you haven't got legislation ready to debate here tonight, what gives us any confidence that we should remain here for the rest of the week? I've travelled here from Queensland and Senator Wong's come from South Australia. Senator Pratt and Senator Dodson are here. It takes Senator Dodson three days to get here! He's ready to debate legislation. You guys can't get your act together to have more than a couple of bills that everyone agrees with. What this shows, once and for all, is that this government did not expect to win the last election and has no agenda whatsoever for this third term. They are a tired, third-term government out of ideas and without an agenda. They had one idea that they took to the election—tax cuts. They got that done last week, and now they're out of things to do. You know what? There are actually a lot of issues that the Australian public would like to see this government deal with. Let's start with wages. Wages under this government are barely rising. How about you introduce some legislation to reverse your penalty rate cuts? That might be a good start. How about you give a few more powers to the regulator to stop all the rampant wage theft we're seeing around the place? I'll give you a whole batch of private members' bills that I'm happy to stay back and debate. In fact, I'll move to extend hours if you want to! Senator Cormann: Done! Senator WATT: No, that's a theoretic possibility. I'm saying, hypothetically— The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator WATT: You know what I'm saying! The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Watt, I have a point of order from Senator Cormann. Senator Cormann, on a point of order. Senator Cormann: I use my contingent motion to move a motion to suspend standing orders in order to facilitate a motion to give effect to what Senator Watt just indicated. Oh, you're now running for the hills, are you? Senator Wong: On the point of order: I know that Senator Cormann is embarrassed because they are seeking to move to the address-in-reply on a Monday night because they've got no legislation, but he knows he can't move a contingent notice whilst there is a substantive debate before the chair. The PRESIDENT: We must discharge the business currently before the chamber before anyone else may move a motion. Senator WATT: I can assure Senator Cormann that I am not running for the hills. I'm going to be here for the next two minutes and thirty-eight seconds rubbing your nose in the fact that you've got no agenda! The Australian public, for very good reasons in their own minds, decided to bring you back so you can have another crack for your third term. We know that Senator Cormann— Government senators interjecting— Senator WATT: No, I said for their very good reasons they decided to bring you back for your third term. Go back and look at what I said. What I said is that for their very good reasons— Senator Cormann interjecting— Senator WATT: Senator Cormann, why don't you spend a little bit of time working out what you actually want to do? You've got nearly three more years to run this parliament, and you've got nothing that you want to do. I've already talked about wage growth. The bill immediately prior to this motion was about housing. We know that under this government housing affordability is the worst we have seen in decades. How about you introduce some legislation on that so that we can actually debate doing something about that? We've talked about Newstart today. There might be something you can do on Newstart. There might be something you can do to assist all sorts of Australians with all sorts of issues, but you are so bereft of ideas. You'd given up on the Australian public before the last election. You don't know what you want to do. We are all intrigued about what on earth we're going to be debating for the rest of this week, let alone next week, let alone the remainder of the term. What you clearly need to do is to send a few of your staff away to work out what you are actually going to do for an agenda? You've now got Senator McKenzie out there cooking up legislation on all sorts of things that no-one in regional Australia is talking about. This is the most embarrassing thing I have seen in three years. Senator Colbeck has just walked in. Perhaps Senator Colbeck might like to do something about the aged care crisis that we're seeing in this country. It was revealed in question time today that the aged care regulator is completely asleep at the wheel when it comes to a nursing home that shut down a bit over a week ago on the Gold Coast. Maybe we should think about strengthening aged care legislation? Maybe we should think about strengthening Medicare? There are any number of issues that this government, if it actually was committed to serving the Australian people, could bring forward legislation for right now, but it is so out of ideas that it has no choice but to get its senators up giving address-in-reply speeches. I remember that in the previous parliament it took the best part of an entire term to get through the address-in-replies because this government had legislation that it actually wanted to put forward. Maybe that's what you got under Prime Minister Turnbull? Maybe you actually had an agenda under Prime Minister Turnbull? Now you've got Prime Minister Morrison. Senator Cormann didn't want him leading the government, and half the people over there didn't either, and now I can see why—because you actually don't know what he wants to do. He doesn't know what he wants to do. He's the one who is stuck in the Canberra bubble, and is setting up these senators— (Time expired)