Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Hansard source

With respect, Senator Bernardi, I think the confusion has arisen because of the two issues in paragraph (a) being conflated—'business other than that of a formal character', which also appears in Senator Cormann's motion. The key phrase is 'excluding government business', and the way the amendment was drafted wasn't enabled, on the fly, to consider that separately. So Senator Di Natale has asked for leave to put the words 'business other than that of a formal character' in paragraph (b)—which would become paragraph (a)—of Senator Wong's motion to amend Senator Cormann's motion.

Senator Di Natale interjecting—

It does change the operation of the motion.