Ruth Webber (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to have the question on the previous vote put again.

Leave granted.

Steve Hutchins (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the disallowance motion moved by Senator Joyce be agreed to.

A division having been called and the bells having been rung—

Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to explain my absence from the last division.

Leave granted.

I was doing a media interview and was in a bit of a lather, which will come as no surprise, over the appointment of Keith Windschuttle to the ABC board. It is an unbelievable appointment. I seek the chamber’s forgiveness.

Kerry O'Brien (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I also seek leave to explain my absence from the last division.

Leave granted.

I was absent because I was engaged in conversations about the cancellation of certain services into South Australia and Northern Tasmania by Qantas.

Question put:

That the motion (Senator Joyce’s) be agreed to.

Robert Ray (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Best out of five!