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

I inform the Senate that the President has received the following letter, dated 16 March 2010, from Senator Hanson-Young:

Dear Mr President,

Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose to move:

“That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency:

The failure of the Rudd Government’s paid parental leave scheme to support parents for the World Health Organisation’s recommended minimum of six months, and address the great inequity between male and female retirement incomes.”

Is the proposal supported?

More than the number of senators required by the standing orders having risen in their places—