Senator STEELE-JOHN (Western Australia) (17:01): I ask that general business notice of motion No. 1242 standing in my name and the name of Senator Faruqi for today, relating to the School Strike 4 Climate Action, be taken as a formal motion. The PRESIDENT: Is there any objection to this motion being taken as formal? An honourable senator interjecting— The PRESIDENT: There is an objection to the motion being taken as formal. Senator STEELE-JOHN: Pursuant to contingent notice and at the request of the Leader of the Australian Greens, I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance and the Public Service (Senator Cormann) to a question without notice asked by Senator Steele-John today relating to the School Strike 4 Climate Action. The PRESIDENT: Before we move to the debate, I remind senators of my advice previously: I will apply the strictest possible definition of relevance to the motion for suspension of standing orders in dealing with these matters in this session of the Senate. Senator STEELE-JOHN: The young people of Australia will, on Wednesday and on Friday and over the weekend, be walking out of their classrooms to take time from their educational venture to send a clear and undeniable message to Australian politics that the generation who will live for the longest with the impacts of climate change demand that their leaders act. It is for this reason— The PRESIDENT: Pause the clock. Senator Steele-John, I counselled senators before that this is not a debate on the motion that you are seeking to have the Senate deal with. This is a motion on why the Senate should deal with it and why standing orders should be suspended. You have been speaking for 44 seconds, and I have heard references to the substantive issue. I am not going to see the Senate's time in this section of debate become longer and longer. It is not reasonable for the great majority of senators. This is a debate on the suspension of standing orders, and I call you to that specific motion, not the motion you seek to have the Senate address. Senator STEELE-JOHN: Standing orders, Mr President, must be suspended so that the Senate is able to give the young people of Australia the answer which they demand to hear. The young people of this nation deserve to know whether their Senate is with them, and no amount of ignorance, no amount of intransigence from certain elements within the government should prevent this chamber from giving them that answer. I urge the chamber to support the suspension of standing orders to enable us to give them the answer which they so rightly deserve to have.