MOTIONS › Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Industries
Senator GALLACHER (South Australia) (18:29): I take the opportunity to quickly address Senator Macdonald's view that Labor is uninterested in rural electorates. My diary would clearly illustrate the work done in the electorate of Grey, from trade training centres to infrastructure projects such as the development of Port Lincoln airport, the Curramulka town centre, the Yorktown town centre and right across the great York Peninsula. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Gallacher, the time for the debate has expired. Senator Ryan: Mr Deputy President, I raise a point of order. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: I indicate to Senator Ryan that I think you are clarifying as to where we are on the Notice Paper. The debate was a strict 90-minute debate. The debate commenced at 5 pm and concluded at 6:30 pm, so we are now moving to consideration of government documents. Senator Ryan: I understand that there are divisions after 4.30 and I was informed that as a matter of general business we would put that motion. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: If the debate had expired before the 90 minutes elapsed then the motion would have been put. But we continued through to 90 minutes. Senator Gallacher was the next speaker and had the right to speak, so he was afforded that opportunity for a number of seconds.