Mr BUTLER (Hindmarsh—Minister for Health and Aged Care and Deputy Leader of the House) (12:46): We will not be supporting this amendment, and I want to correct the record on a couple of counts. Firstly, let's be clear: this sitting schedule has been out there for some time now. As I said, it was adopted without dissent in the Senate. And, to the Manager of Opposition Business's suggestion that we have come in here without any notice: he knows full well that his office was informed at around 11:30 that we would seek to bring this on after the ministerial statement about the Ashton review. As to the substance of the amendment: the Manager of Opposition Business has taken us back to Federation for an average of sitting times, a time when people used to get on a steamship from Perth and on the train from everywhere else, uprooting their entire lives to sit in this place for six or eight weeks at a time Mr Chester: But he was accurate! Mr BUTLER: He may well be accurate; I haven't gone back to 1901. What I have done is go back to 2007—a period of 16 years or so, the majority of which saw those opposite government and not the Labor Party—and the average sitting weeks for a non-election year, which 2024 will be, was 17 weeks for the House of Representatives and 14 weeks for the Senate. That is exactly what is contained in this sitting schedule. And I'll say further that the final non-COVID non-election sitting year for the former coalition government, 2018, had—wait for it—17 weeks of sittings for the House of Representatives! We have important legislation to get on with here—the Disability Services and Inclusion Bill 2023. This has been debated in the Senate and adopted without dissent. The opposition and the crossbench have had notice of the government's intention here, so I move: That the question be now put. The SPEAKER: The question is that the question be now put.