Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I appreciate your attempts to facilitate this. If it helps the government that I seek leave to make a five-minute statement rather than seek to move a motion, which is the traditional response in respect of an order for the production of documents, I do not see that that limits my capacity to speak. I would like to clarify, because I know other senators—Senator Day was one, but I think there may be others—want to know the situation on this matter, whether they would be able to also make a motion or a statement on this.