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

by leave—I move this amendment to Senator Brown’s proposed amendment:

At the end of the motion, add “and that the Senate also notes that the Liberal National Party in Queensland is not recommending preferences”.

I thought it would be helpful if I read the amendment as it would be if the proposed amendment to the amendment were carried—just for clarity: ‘That, logically, the Queensland Liberal National Party, in concern for the Mary River, ought to prefer the Greens over the Australian Labor Party in assessing preference directions.’ And I would add the words but ‘that the Senate also notes that the Liberal National Party in Queensland is not recommending preferences’.