John Faulkner (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 142 standing in the name of Senator Fierravanti-Wells.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

At the end of the motion, add:

(2) That, in taking the unusual step of ordering the publication of in camera evidence, the Senate notes:

(a) the sensitivity of much of the material has been diminished by the passage of time and the disclosure of these matters in criminal proceedings or in the Fair Work Australia report; and

(b) publication is not inconsistent with the Senate’s well-established principles on the application of the sub judice convention or with any of the usual grounds on which Senate committees would generally decline to publish evidence.

Question agreed to.

Original question, as amended, agreed to.