Senate debates

Monday, 22 June 2009

Reserve Bank of Australia

3:33 pm

Photo of Bob BrownBob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That the Government furnish the Senate with a considered response to reports in the Age that firms associated with the Reserve Bank of Australia may have been involved in corrupt practices by 25 June 2009.

Question agreed to.

3:34 pm

Photo of Kerry O'BrienKerry O'Brien (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—I wish to indicate that the government did not support this motion. I did not call for a division because it was clear from the voices that the opposition was supporting the Greens motion, and therefore the numbers lay with the yes vote.