Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

On the same point of order, Mr President, the motion that we dealt with a week ago, before we dealt with the substantive motion, was that so much of the standing orders would be set aside as would prevent Senator Lazarus from moving a motion relating to a particular three-page motion that he then proceeded to deal with. Senator Brandis's point, which I reinforce, is that this motion we are dealing with today—dealing with setting aside standing orders so that Senator Lazarus could in fact move this three-page motion, which would be incorporated into the Hansard record—is exactly the same motion and, for the reasons Senator Brandis gave, is exactly the reason by-law 86 provides.