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The manager of opposition business, Tony Burke, has moved a motion to resume debate on the drought fund bill after the minister’s second reading speech tomorrow.

Labor is infuriated that the government is rushing the bill through to wedge the opposition before it can consider it at caucus on Tuesday.

Burke says the the motion “will make no difference at all to the timing of drought assistance” (because the bill can still pass by week’s end) and Labor is attempting to draw the line to prevent it becoming “standard practice for legislation to be rushed through without being read”.

Burke says rushing the legislation through is a “really dumb idea” and makes vague threats that “if the government decides proper process in this house no longer matters” they can’t come to the opposition seeking cooperation on other procedural matters.