Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

On the point of order, as the Senate quite rightly knows, many senators do make speeches in this place with copious notes. Sometimes they have short notes and sometimes they have longer notes. Both sides of the chamber have continued to use notes. I am sure that the Liberals, on the other side, also use notes in their contributions to the Senate, as does this side of the house. Some use more copious notes than others, some use notepads and others use even shorter versions. It has been a long-standing practice in this place not to take points of order on these.