Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Road Safety) Share this | Hansard source

I inform the Senate that, as at 8.30 am today, 23 proposals were received by the President in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot. As a result, I inform the Senate that the following letter has been received from Senator Polley:

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

The need for Mr Morrison to apologise for his role overseeing every aspect of the illegal Robodebt scheme as the Social Services Minister who designed it, the Treasurer who implemented it, and the Prime Minister who settled the claims of victims for $1.2 billion, and to establish a Royal Commission because that is the only forum with the coercive powers and broad jurisdiction necessary to properly investigate this fiasco.

Is the proposal supported?

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

I understand that informal arrangements have been made to allocate specific times to each of the speakers in today's debate. With the concurrence of the Senate, I shall ask the clerks to set the clock accordingly.