Jess Walsh (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, 17 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 letter from Senator Pratt 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:

The lives at risk because with Mr Morrison it is always too little, too late and he is more interested in picking fights with premiers rather than taking action on expert advice to address the expected shortage of beds, overcrowded emergency departments and longer waits as a result of COVID-19 patients in our hospitals.

Is the proposal supported?

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