Russell Trood (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

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

The Gillard Government’s inability and unwillingness to explain the effect on cost of living pressures of the Labor-Green carbon tax.

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—