Slade Brockman (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Iinform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, 28 proposals were received. In accordance with standing order 75, 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 from Senator Rice proposing a matter of public importance was chosen.

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

Members of the Morrison Government have called for ads on the ABC and for Australia's national youth broadcaster, Triple J, to be sold. The Senate agrees that the public broadcaster should remain ad free and that Triple J should not be privatised.

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 discussion. With the concurrence of the Senate, I ask the clerks to set the clock accordingly.