Fatima Payman (WA, Australia's Voice) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, by no later than 5 pm on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, copies of all ministerial submissions, records of conversation, letters, briefing notes, meeting agendas, file notes, meeting invitations, meeting notes, meeting minutes, emails and instant/electronic messages between the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and/or her office, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and the Administrator of the Construction and General Division of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), Mr Mark Irving KC, and/or his office in relation to the report prepared by Mr Geoffrey Watson SC on allegations of corruption and criminality within the CFMEU, entitled 'Rotting from the top', and Mr Irving's decision to remove two sections from that report.

Nita Green (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Tourism) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I move an amendment as follows:

Omit all words after "That", substitute:

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

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

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the amendment as moved by Senator Green to general business notice of motion No. 374 be agreed to. Is a division required? We will defer that one.