Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

I inform the Senate that at 8.30 today nine proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75 from Senators Cameron, Dastyari, Gallagher, Hanson, Hinch, McAllister, Siewert, Urquhart and Wong. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot. As a result, I inform the Senate that the following letter has been received from Senator Siewert:

Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion:

The Turnbull government's spending of $1 billion on Adani's coal line rail that is putting 70,000 tourism jobs along the Great Barrier Reef at risk as well as jeopardising the livelihoods of future generations.

Is the proposal supported?

More than the number of senators required by the standing orders having risen in their places—

I understand that informal arrangements have been made to allocate specific times to each of the speakers in today's debate. With the concurrence of the Senate, I shall ask the clerks to set the clocks accordingly.