Deborah O'Neill (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator Hughes, which is also shown at item 12 on today's Senate Order of Business:

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

Australians are being hit with a triple whammy of skyrocketing costs of essentials, falling real wages and now an interest rate hike, which demonstrates a clear failure of the Albanese Government to deliver a plan to ease the cost of living.

Is the proposal supported?

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

With the concurrence of the Senate, the clerks will set the clock in line with the informal arrangements made by the whips.