Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

The coalition will be supporting part (a), for the reasons so eloquently presented by Senator Birmingham in his contribution this week, but we do not support part (b) of this motion, for the reasons that were outlined by you, Mr President—because we believe that suspension is not the relevant sanction under these circumstances. So we seek for this motion to be divided and ask that parts (a)(i), (ii) and (iii) be separated from part (b).