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

I raise a point of order. I note that there is a proposal to have the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee meet today and 24 March, which is tomorrow. My point of order—and I am not quite sure how to deal with it—is that there has been no legitimate meeting of that committee to determine to meet on 24 March. There was a meeting yesterday. Senator Watt and I both had to leave the meeting. The meeting was then inquorate. The discussion had started about the decision to meet, but it had not concluded. It had not got anywhere near the moving of a motion to meet on the 24th when the committee became inquorate. I did, as I left the meeting, indicate that the committee would be inquorate, so the committee was aware of it. I raise, as a point of order, the fact that this actual request is here for the meeting on the 24th.