Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

If I may briefly suggest a procedural issue: it seems to me that there will potentially be a number of divisions. Can I suggest that we have a cognate debate in relation to the proposed amendments of the opposition, of Senator Xenophon and Senator Fielding so we air them all? Then we can have rolling divisions to save senators being brought back and forth to the chamber, and have those divisions straight after. The difference between the amendment proposed by Senator Xenophon and that proposed by Senator Fielding has been recognised by the coalition. In our raft of amendments on sheet 5739 revised 2, we did have that provision for redundancy to which Senator Xenophon refers.