Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I raise a point of order on clarification. There is no problem with leave being granted but I would just like to ask whether Senator Bob Brown’s motion is correct. First of all, there is no such entity as the Queensland National Liberal Party, so I am not quite sure what his amendment refers to.

Greens senators interjecting—

Well? The second question is this: does Senator Brown really mean that he moves an amendment to my original motion by ‘adding the words that’ or is he proposing that his amendment replace the original motion? That will affect how we vote on it. I assume he means that his amendment should have been ‘that the following words be added’ to the motion and then saying what he is saying.