Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

As it turns out I think it was Senator Joyce’s amendment that we were discussing. As soon as we saw this amendment come on we all rushed down but by then the matter had been put and I am rather disappointed that that happened. As I understand it Senator Xenophon indicated that he would not be supporting Senator Joyce’s amendment so it would have been defeated with the Labor Party, the Greens and Senator Xenophon not supporting it. I guess we do not need to recommit it and I do not think we were going to divide in any case. I am not sure whether Senator Joyce wants to say something about that matter, although perhaps he just has. If we are now dealing—