Senate debates
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Questions to the President
Standing Orders 72(2) and 203
3:04 pm
Stephen Parry (President) Share this | Hansard source
or anyone, but normally it is the Leader of the Government in the Senate, to then move that motion. The outcome is not different—so the outcome would have been the same. However, I do accept—you are absolutely correct—that I got the order wrong. However, this is the first time, I think, in 10 years that that has been invoked, and that is the only provision that the President has—and you can imagine me being very rusty with that provision, having never used it at all before. And I hope I never have to use it again. Thank you, Senator Wong.
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