Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

Omit all words after "That", substitute:

(a) the power to order the production of documents is one of the Senate's most serious powers, and should be used when other processes have been exhausted rather than for fishing expeditions;

(b) senators seeking to order the production of documents should consider paragraph (a) and refine their orders accordingly; and

(c) the Minister for Education does not possess documents, which the senator would know if they had used other avenues to seek these documents prior to moving a motion in the Senate.