Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) | Hansard source

I just want to make sure we've got clarity and check in relation to one other aspect of this, because it's a very chaotic process being imposed upon the Senate by the government, which is that the result of Senator McKim's request is that the question on those three bills will be put separately but together. The intent of the Greens in making that request, given what's required in the standing orders, is presumably that they are voting one way on all of the rest of the motion in its totality and a different way on those three particular bills.