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

Thank you, President. I thank you for the clarity there in relation to what is happening. I'm keen to understand, because once again, as has happened time and time again on a Thursday afternoon, the government, in trying to clean up something they haven't liked during the week, have come in here and tried to pursue a suspension of standing orders. They've tried to wrestle around the numbers. We see frustration and confusion occurring on the crossbench, quite understandably, in terms of what the division is, what people are voting on. This is a government, in terms of transparency—