Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The reason Senator Molan was called was because there was an error on the speaking list. The government never speaks first when we are debating a bill—it always goes Labor, Greens and back over to the government side of the chamber. There was an acknowledged error in the speaking list to the point where none of our speakers, even though we provided them, were on it, as I understand it. That's why Senator Molan was first.