Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Leave granted.

Yesterday during motions I was denied leave to speak for a minute on a motion that I had put to the Senate for referral to the Environment and Communications References Committee. For clarification, I went back and reviewed the video around the motion. Leave was granted and you did grant me leave to speak. I spoke for about three seconds before you then said leave wasn't granted. I want to ask about the precedent about you making a decision or ruling that leave has been granted and then a senator speaking and then having their—I'm not asking about why leave was denied. I want to know about the precedent of having leave granted and then having it taken away while you're in the middle of a speech.