Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

President, can I ask you to step us through the motions that have been passed by this chamber to date. There was certainly nothing at the end of what Senator Gallagher said before that said the words 'and I move that the question be now put'. That was not what Senator Gallagher said in the motion she just put before. She moved a motion. The motion itself entailed no debate if that motion was successful, but there was nothing in the content of that motion that sought to close debate on that specific motion put forward.

Opposition senators interjecting—