Alan Ferguson (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I have already given a guarantee, Senator Brown, that we will be looking at this as soon as we return to the sittings in February. The reason we have put it for the year 2009 is that it is a temporary order and can be revoked at any time. That can happen during the first session if people want to change it, but, if we do not have this in place, it means that we will revert to the old question time for the first day or two of the next sitting. It is really just to cover that occurrence.

Question agreed to.