Senator CHRIS EVANS (Western Australia—Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:15): I thank Senator Brandis for the question, genuinely. I certainly will not be lectured by the opposition regarding process. One of the reasons they are sitting where they are is their abuse of Senate process when they rammed through the Work Choices legislation. Their overreaching in terms of process came home to haunt them. But we remember the way they ran the Senate, exercising their numbers on every occasion to squash any proper scrutiny. This government has been consistent, in opposition and in government, in allowing proper process and giving the Senate the opportunity to examine legislation. Again on this occasion the government will facilitate not only a joint select committee, which will be able to work its way through the legislation, but also sufficient time for the Senate chamber to consider the legislation in detail. We have proposed that we sit an extra week to ensure that we get at least two solid weeks to debate the legislation and we are happy to set extra hours to facilitate a comprehensive debate on that legislation. We have had trouble getting the opposition to work in recent times. We will give them the opportunity to sit extra hours during that fortnight to give the bill proper consideration. But we know what we will get. We will get the opposition saying no. They will not be engaged in the public policy debate. They have made their position. Their position is 'no'. But we will still allow you two weeks to say no, and you can say no as long as you like for the two weeks while the rest of the chamber actually examines the legislation and has a serious public policy debate. I invite you to join but I know you will not.