There are just four sitting weeks left for Victoria's parliament before November's state election, but there's still an "impossible" mountain of legislation to get through.
With more than 20 bills sitting in the state's upper house waiting for action, Legislative Council members will even gather on Fridays - not usually a scheduled sitting day - to try to get as much passed as possible.
"A lot of them will pass," the government's upper house leader Gavin Jennings said, blaming the opposition for the build-up.
"If you go back, we had a bit of a log jam because in fact for a few months the (Liberal-National) coalition went on a bit of a strike and they were drip feeding pieces of legislation through the parliament.
"Some of them were very complicated pieces of legislation that took a long time and consideration and sometimes they were just filibustering."
Mr Jennings admitted "it would be impossible" for all the bills to be cleared.
The parliament has had several all-night sittings to tackle contentious issues, such as assisted dying legislation last year and fire services reform at Easter.
Mary Wooldridge, leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council, said much of the legislation coming in was "poorly drafted or have gaps" that need scrutinising.
She also blamed the government's various rorting scandals for disrupting parliament, pointing to this week's resignation by MP Khalil Eideh as deputy president of the upper house while remaining under investigation over allegations of misusing a printing allowance for branch stacking.
"There's so many more bills coming through from the Legislative Assembly at this late stage of the parliament," she said.
"All of the chaos and dysfunction of this Labor government is coming home to roost in how they manage the Legislative Council and their agenda."
But the opposition also faced criticism from key crossbencher Fiona Patten who said the situation had become frustrating and accused the Liberals of trying to stymie the flow of the parliament.
The Reason Party MP said she expected prolonged debate on big matters such as assisted dying, but said debate was dragging even on bills everyone supported.
"It is a very cynical tactic to delay legislation," she told AAP.
"I won't be surprised if we are sitting through the night to get this done. And I support that."
Parliament sits for four more weeks spread across August and September before the state election on November 24.
