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

Mr President, on a point of order: I suggest to you that, if you had taken Senator Xenophon’s motion and the Senate so decided, that would be one thing, but if you are doing it as an administrative decision it can have, dare I say, a political response, which I know that you as chairman of this gathering would not want to be part of.