Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

In support of your ruling, this is a matter that I've raised with the Clerk directly in the last week, about the order of the call and how it usually does go to and fro across the chamber. He advised me that that is normally the case, other than in relation to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, where precedence does apply. That was certainly the advice the Clerk gave me, and it is consistent with the advice that you have been provided.