MATTERS OF URGENCY

The DEPUTY PRESIDENT (15:52): Senator Cash has submitted a proposal, under standing order 75, today, as shown at item 13 of today's Order of Business: That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency: The Prime Minister's repeated failure to take responsibility for his crude and inappropriate conduct, his willingness to rely on senior female ministers making excuses for his behaviour, his habit of denying, minimising or rewriting the truth when caught out, and the growing pattern of broken promises, false assurances and misleading statements that has destroyed Australians' trust in his word.

Is consideration of the proposal supported? More than the number of senators required by the standing orders having risen in their places— The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: With the concurrence of the Senate, the clerks will set the clock in line with the informal arrangements made by the whips.