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Senator GREEN (Queensland—Assistant Minister for Tourism, Assistant Minister for Pacific Island Affairs and Assistant Minister for Northern Australia) (18:54): by leave—I move an amendment as follows: Omit all words after "That", substitute: (a) orders for the production of documents is one of the Senate's most serious powers, and should be used when all other processes have been exhausted rather than for fishing expeditions; and (b) Senators seeking to order the production of documents should consider paragraph (a) and refine their orders accordingly.

The PRESIDENT: The question is that the amendment, as Senator Green moved, to general business notice of motion No. 375, standing in the name of Senator Payman, be agreed to. A division being required, we'll defer that.