Mr KATTER (Kennedy) (17:32): Mr Speaker, before I came to this place I thought that galahs had to have feathers but I have established today that obviously they do not. The SPEAKER: The member for Kennedy will speak to his amendment. Mr KATTER: In all seriousness, in 42 years in parliament it has only been for the last few years that the government majority has been cut down to that very small margin. What are we talking about here? What is the government scared of: giving us an extra 15 seconds a day? We crossbenchers must be terrifying. Government members interjecting— Mr Morrison: We're voting for it. Mr Pasin: We're supporting you, Bob. Mr KATTER: I would like to be able to hear myself speak, Mr Speaker. The SPEAKER: I sympathise with the member for Kennedy. He has the call. Mr KATTER: It would be admirable to hear something intelligent coming from them, but I am not hearing anything to that effect. Opposition members interjecting— Mr KATTER: Mr Speaker, truly, I would like to have a chance to speak. If you want the call, you stand up and ask the Speaker if you can speak, right? Otherwise you should sit there and shut up. The SPEAKER: The member for Kennedy will resume his seat. Members on my right will cease interjecting. I call the Leader of the House on a point of order. Mr Pyne: In order to assist the member for Kennedy—and I am happy to hear his speech—who might not have heard because of the hubbub, the government and opposition are both going to support his amendment. Mr KATTER: I will speak exceptionally briefly. There is a hell of a difference between a question such as 'We are having flooding; could the minister please assist us over flooding in the Gulf of Carpentaria?' and saying: 'We have 60 kilometres of water where the three rivers have joined. Karumba is now an island. It needs to be evacuated, and your government is doing nothing about evacuating the population.' That is a question I actually asked in this place and I was cut down before I could give the detail which could have embarrassed the government into action. It was also asked in the Queensland parliament, except that the state member had the chance to get the full question out and get the helicopters in. I use that as an example, but I could use a hundred others. Mr Speaker, I am greatly flattered by the resistance—which has now crumbled—of the government to giving me and my fellow crossbenchers an extra 15 seconds. The SPEAKER: Does the member for Denison wish to speak? Mr Wilkie: No, Mr Speaker. The SPEAKER: Then the question is that the amendment be agreed to. Question agreed to. The SPEAKER: The question is that the motion moved by the Leader of the House, as amended, be agreed to.