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Thank you. Please resume your seat. I remind you, Senator Pocock, that I had to tell you twice to go to your seat. The standing orders and conventions in this place are very clear: once the tellers are appointed, every senator who's intending to vote on the matter ought to be in their seat. The question is that the question be now put on the motion to suspend standing orders. A division has been called, and it's my intention now to ask the tellers to commence that count.

Honourable senators interjecting—

Order! I am advised that senators are not supposed to move once tellers have been appointed, but with the concurrence of the Senate, to save time, we can allow that—Senator Askew, a point of order?