MATTERS OF URGENCY

Senator CHISHOLM (Queensland—Assistant Minister for Regional Development, Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Assistant Minister for Resources and Deputy Manager of Government Business in the Senate) (18:03): I seek leave to move an amendment to the motion. Senator Hanson: Bring in the big guns! The PRESIDENT: Senator Hanson, I'm going to ask you to withdraw that.

I am the President of the Senate. Senator Hanson: I shall withdraw. Leave not granted.

Senator CHISHOLM: At the request of the Leader of the Government in the Senate, and pursuant to contingent notice, I move: That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent me moving an amendment to the motion. And I move: That the question be now put. The PRESIDENT: The question is that the closure motion as moved by Senator Chisholm be agreed to.