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

Mr President, I rise on a point of order. Immediately before question time, during my submission on the Car Dealership Financing Guarantee Appropriation Bill 2009, Senator Abetz took a point of order in which he said that it would have been inappropriate for him to vote on the matter of reference to the Standing Committee of Privileges this morning. However, he also said that he had been paired. I ask you to look at that matter, Mr President, and come back to the Senate to let the Senate know whether a pairing is not in effect a vote. If so, Senator Abetz has said it would be inappropriate for him to have voted, so the matter may be recommitted to the chamber.