by leave—I move:

That the Senate—

(a)   notes on 6 December 2006 in the General Assembly of the United Nations 125 countries voted for the commencement of multilateral negotiations leading to an early conclusion of a nuclear weapons convention and that Australia was one of 29 abstentions; and

(b)   calls on the Government to work for the immediate commencement of negotiations towards a nuclear weapons convention to ban the development, production, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons.

Question put.