I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) on 25 November, the Attorney General (Senator Brandis) declined to table a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the cost of the Government's data retention legislation, and

(ii) the Government has not detailed the cost of its data retention legislation; and

(b) orders that there be laid on the table by the Attorney-General, no later than noon on Thursday, 4 December 2014:

(i) the summarised findings of the PricewaterhouseCoopers study or a copy of the study with commercially sensitive information redacted; and

(ii) a timeline for the Government's process for developing cost estimates for its data retention policy.

The question is that Senator Ludlam's motion be agreed to.

The Senate divided. [16:07]

(The President—Senator Parry)