Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I am always happy to recommit a vote if the will of the Senate was not properly reflected or if a senator missed a division et cetera. But I took Senator Fielding to be saying he wanted to vote against it. My understanding was that it was defeated anyway, in which case I do not understand why we would recommit. If Senator Fielding wanted to vote ‘no’ and Senator Xenophon wanted to vote ‘no’ and the result was recorded as negatived, what are we doing?