Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The President has received the following letter from Senator Xenophon:

Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion:

The Abbott government's failure to acknowledge that the term 'occupied' in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territories is an objective legal description of the status of those Territories.

Is the proposal supported?

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

The proposal is supported.