Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The Liberal Party will be supporting the motion to suspend the standing orders. One of the things I would say is that suspending standing orders, as we know, is not something this chamber should do lightly. But, when you are presented with a motion such as this, this is the opportune time to say that we should deviate from the business that we had ahead of us and look at this motion in detail. When an issue is urgent like this one is, when delay carries real consequences and when the Senate does have a responsibility to act rather than defer, standing orders must give way. Senator Lambie, this is one of those opportunities. We should suspend the current business of the Senate. As I said, the Liberal Party will indeed support Senator Lambie's motion.

Question agreed to.