Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Hansard source

We'll stop the division at the moment, with the consent of the chamber. The option is that, under the standing orders, senators in lieu of a division can have the position of themselves—and, in this case, I would allow parties—to be recognised in the Hansard and the Journals of the Senate as adopting a particular position on the bill. It's a facility that allows one senator to have a vote recorded without there being a division if there's not a second voice. It will allow you, Senator Faruqi, on behalf of your party—you've got the deputy leader and the whip here—to record the position of yourself and your Greens Senate colleagues without there being a division recorded. As I understand it, other views have been expressed by parties around the chamber.

Senator Faruqi interjecting—

Thank you, Senator Faruqi. That is appreciated by all senators, particularly myself, the clerks and the tellers. So, if the Journals and Hansard could record Senator Faruqi and the Greens senators opposing the second reading of that bill, the ayes have it.

Question agreed to.

Bill read a second time.