Claire Chandler (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, 18 proposals were received 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 letter from Senator Ayres, proposing a matter of public importance, was chosen—namely:

The refusal of the Morrison-Joyce Government to publicly release the Doherty Modelling, as Australians become increasingly concerned that the previous modelling based on a small COVID outbreak does not adequately deal with how many hospitalisations, deaths, cases are now expected with revised modelling.

Is the proposal supported?

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