Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend the motion standing in my name relating to that objection to:

Omit all words after ‘that’ and substitute:

the following proposed amendment to Standing Order 175 be referred to the Procedure Committee for consideration and report by 7 September 2009:

Paragraph (3) to read “Paragraph (2) does not apply—

paragraph (2) being that no person other than a senator or an officer be allowed in the chamber—

in respect of a senator breastfeeding an infant, or, at the discretion of the President, a senator caring for infant briefly, provided the business of the Senate is not disrupted.