Senator MOORE (Queensland) (16:53): by leave—I move: Omit all words after "that" and substitute: (a) The hours of meeting shall be 10 am to 6.30pm and 7.30pm to 10.30pm; (b) The routine of business shall be: (i) Documents (ii) Clerk's documents (iii) Committees - authorisation to meet (iv) Government business only, (v) At 2pm, questions, (vi) Motions to take note of answers (vii) Petitions (viii) Postponement and rearrangement of business (ix) Formal motions – discovery of formal business (x) Any proposal to debate a matter of public importance or urgency (xi) Consideration of documents under standing order 61 for up to 30 minutes (xii) Government business (xiii) At 9.50pm, adjournment proposed. Senator MOORE: Mr President, I seek leave to make a short statement. The PRESIDENT: Leave is granted for one minute. Senator MOORE: Everyone knows what the amendment is; you have had a good chance to read it. But I do want to respond briefly to comments made by Senator Abetz about the hypocrisy on this side of the chamber in looking to put forward a process which allows debate in this place. If we go back through history over a series of governments since the time this parliament first met, there has been poor practice and best practice. The fact that we could make an argument that we could not come here today to talk about having a more transparent way of how we operate and seeking a full day of debate in this Senate in a standard day would be able to be dismissed because people said that it would not operate beforehand. That is not the way this place operates. We are not going back to argue about different places in the past. Senator Ian Macdonald: What did you do when you were in government? The PRESIDENT: Senator Macdonald. Senator MOORE: No matter how many times Senator Macdonald raises his voice in this debate, it will not move the chance that we have to make a vote on having a standard day of debate in this place next Monday. (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: The question is that the amendment moved by Senator Moore to Senator Fifield's motion be agreed to. The PRESIDENT: The question now is that the substantive motion, as amended by Senator Xenophon's motion, be agreed to. Question agreed to.