Michael Forshaw (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The President has received a letter from Senator Bob Brown proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion, namely:

The recent oil and chemical spill from the Pacific Adventurer on the south-east Queensland coast.

I call upon those senators who approve of the proposed discussion to rise in their places.

More than the number of senators required by the standing orders having risen in their places—