After more than 14 hours, dozens of votes, and more than 30 bills passed, the Senate adjourns for the year.
"That the Senate do now adjourn."
"The ayes have it. Happy Christmas and Hogmanay (Scottish word for New Year’s Eve)."
Labor securing cross parliament support for what's called a guillotine motion, allowing dozens of bills to be voted on with minimal or no debate.
"We passed 31 bills yesterday and 45 bills through the week, which I don't think is quite the record, but it's certainly right up there."
Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie tried to block the move, saying the government is rushing important legislation.
"You know its a problem when the guillotine is four pages long. And these aren't small bills, they aren't tweaks to the legislation that we can call non controversial. They are big and they are massive. And they include bills that are so under cooked, and that putting it politely they're raw to the bone."
The Greens brokered a deal with the government to help pass 27 bills.
In total, 32 bills have been passed on the last day of the parliamentary year.
The government agreeing to increase the minimum lease term to five years under the Build to Rent scheme, and exclude coal, gas, and oil projects from being funded for the minor party's support of the $22 billion Future Made in Australia package.
Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather says they also secured $500 million from the Federal Government for critical upgrades to social housing.
"This means insulation, air conditioning, shading, bill-saving rooftop solar and batteries for social housing tenants who are often forced to live through brutal summers and winters in homes in desperate need of repair."
The Coalition voted with Labor to pass three controversial migration bills, giving the government the power to deport thousands of non-citizens to third countries, impose sweeping travel bans, reverse protection findings for refugees, and ban phones from detention centres.
Advocates have described the package as brutal, warning it could have wide reaching impacts through multicultural Australia.
Prime Minister saying he hasn't abandoned those communities.
"We support our multicultural communities each and every day. We are a government that wants an inclusive Australia that stands up for that, but we understand as well that our migration system needs to be robust and needs to be not manipulated."
But he couldn't detail how third country removal powers, that allow the government to pay undisclosed countries to take deportees, would be used.
Journalist: "How soon do you intend to strike a third country reception arrangement? Which countries could we pay to take non-citizens from Australia? And will you guarantee that you'll only do such deals with signatories of the Refugee Convention?"
PM: "We'll implement our legislation. We'll implement our legislation."
Journalist: "Are there any safeguards or is it all bets are off?"
PM: "You get one".
The massive pile of legislation that passed included manufacturing and economic policies, cybersecurity bills, changes to the Reserve Bank, superannuation, counterterrorism financing, privacy, and merger laws.
The only bill given additional time to debate was the world first social media ban for teenagers, with like likes of TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram to ensure under 16s can't access their sites within the year, or face a $50 million fine.
Most, but not all, of the Coalition also supported it.
Alex Antic and Matt Canavan voting against the bill.
"A whole generation of Australians have watched this saga, this sordid saga, over the past week, play out and be completely, completely disillusioned with their democratic process that they should have an involvement in, that we've completely denied them their voice. I mean, maybe we've scheduled the debate for 10:30pm on the last day of school, because we know that all the people that will be impacted by this band will be at bed. It's past their bedtime. They can't even watch it."
The government failed to pass its changes to electoral reform rules, laws to establish Australia's first Environmental Protection Agency, and still hasn't introduced legislation to reduce or ban gambling advertising.
The Prime Minister assuring that Parliament will return in February, although an election could be called at any moment.
