Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

A letter has been received from Senator Hughes:

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

With Australia in an entrenched household recession, anaemic growth, productivity going backwards, and suffering now worsening under Labor's cost of living crisis, the Treasurer is blaming everyone but himself and his three failed budgets.

Is the proposal supported?

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

With the concurrence of the Senate, the clerks will set the clock in line with the informal arrangements made by the whips.