Kerry O'Brien (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The point I am making is that Senator Abetz suggested that, in the absence of the interpretation that he preferred earlier today about standing order 72(1), there was nothing in the Notice Paper that that standing order could apply to. The point that I make, Senator Macdonald, is that there clearly are a number of matters able to be pointed to in today’s Notice Paper on which a question might have been asked under standing order 72(1). I merely draw to the attention of the Senate the suggestion that it is not a correct proposition to suggest that there is nothing else in the Notice Paper that might apply to and therefore the standing order would be meaningless.