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

I move:

That—

  (a)   the Senate requests Mr Alan Belford Jones AO apologise to the police and wider public for his false claim that thousands of people and hundreds of trucks, on their way to the 'Convoy of No Confidence' rally outside Parliament House on Monday, 22 August 2011, had been stopped at the border of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory;

  (b)   the President report to the Senate on:

     (i)   Mr Jones' claim that 'the people who have come here [Parliament House] can't actually get into the precinct to be heard', and

     (ii)   whether people attending the rally were prevented in any way different to any other Australian coming to protest at Parliament House or whether this claim by Mr Jones is also false; and

  (c)   Mr Jones be invited to respond to this motion, should it pass.