Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 280, standing in my name, before asking that it be taken as a formal motion.

Leave granted.

I have an amendment to the motion, which relates to the establishment of a select committee on the integrity of the Prime Minister’s office. I need to circulate that now, if I can. The amendment would change item No. 8. I ask that a copy of it be given to the other parties. The amendment is to item No. 8, in which the words are to be inserted: ‘but that no journalist shall be asked to reveal their source’. Item No. 8 would then read:

That the committee have power to send for and examine persons and documents, but that no journalist shall be asked to reveal their source …