Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The next question, standing orders having been suspended, is that Senator Lazarus has asked that the motion relating to the Queensland government be moved immediately and have precedence over all other government business. That is a procedural motion. Standing orders having been suspended to enable the motion to be considered, he is now moving that it be considered immediately and take precedence. That has nothing to do with standing order 86, as Senator Brandis is arguing. He can argue that when we get to the next part of the debate, but this is procedural and it does not apply. We have heard it twice, and he has been wrong on both occasions so far.