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

by leave—I take the opposition’s point. I was not aware that Senator Brandis had stood up at the time of the motion. If he did so and the President recognised that—or failed to recognise that—I would ordinarily have granted leave at that point. It is a little unusual to grant it post the point and normally I would not but, under the understanding that it was a matter that was missed because of the chamber hubbub, if we can call it that, I grant leave for a short statement.