Alan Ferguson (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

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

The dangers presented by the Rudd Government’s decision to allow the importation of beef products from countries that have had confirmed outbreaks of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease).

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—