Senator CORMANN (Western Australia—Minister for Finance and the Public Service, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (13:49): I move: Honourable senators interjecting— Senator Wong: Point of order. The PRESIDENT: You'll raise a point of order after Senator Cormann has the— Senator CORMANN: I've stood up first. The PRESIDENT: Senator Cormann has precedence, which I— Senator Wong: It's 1.50. The PRESIDENT: Order! I have just sought advice on the matters that I could predict would come up. Senator Jacinta Collins: You didn't give us any courtesy. The PRESIDENT: Senator Collins, please resume your seat. I'm going to allow Senator Cormann to move it, and then I will take your point of order. But Senator Cormann does have precedence. It's a tradition I respect for both the leader of the government and the Leader of the Opposition on numerous occasions. Senator Cormann. Senator CORMANN: I move: Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: I've called Senator Cormann. He's going to finish doing this— Senator Jacinta Collins interjecting— The PRESIDENT: I have called Senator Cormann. I have sought advice from the Clerk on the matter of the time, and I'm going to rule on it, but Senator Cormann had the call. Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Yes, and I'm allowed to let the person who had the call— Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: I sought advice from the Clerk on this matter and the matter of 1.50, which I will soon explain, is not relevant to Senator Cormann moving this motion, which I will explain after the courtesy is granted to him to put what he wants to on the record. Senator CORMANN: I move: That a motion relating to the consideration of legislation may be moved immediately and determined without amendment or debate. And I move: That the question be now put. The PRESIDENT: Now, Senator Wong, on the point of order on time, I sought advice from the Clerk on this matter during the last division, before it reached 1.50, while the numbers were being counted, and the Clerk has advised me that, consistent with past practice, we have already suspended standing orders, and that allows the minister to move this particular motion, because the effect of that motion was the 1.50 cut-off did not apply to the moving of this subsequent motion subsequent to the previous vote. The Clerk has advised me that that is consistent with past practice. Senator Collins. Senator Jacinta Collins: The question I raised earlier that I was hoping for you to illuminate us on was on standing order No. 87. That has not yet been addressed. What all senators in this place need clarification on is how this motion, circulated very late in the piece with no notice, no warning, no consultation, was that he would move that the limitation of debate of the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Removing Discrimination Against Students) Bill 2018 no longer operate. We determined this matter last Thursday. We went through the correct processes to do— The PRESIDENT: Are you raising a point of order? Senator Collins, please resume your seat. You've raised your point of order, which is: does the motion moved by Senator Cormann contravene standing order 87. Now, that motion cannot be ruled on, by the way, until Senator Cormann has had a chance to move the motion, which is why I wanted to give him an opportunity to actually move the motion. Senator Jacinta Collins: Without debate. The PRESIDENT: Hang on. You can't raise a point of order about a motion being outside the standing orders until the motion is moved. So I have sought the advice of the Clerk on this matter, and you were kind enough to provide me with your query earlier to allow me to seek advice from the Clerk, and the Clerk has said, again, consistent with past practice, the suspension of standing orders means that standing order 87 does not apply to prevent the moving of this motion and that that is also consistent with the past practice of the Senate. I wanted Senator Cormann to move it, because the point of order can only be raised after it is moved. Senator Collins. Senator Jacinta Collins: If we are, indeed, dealing with the motion that Senator Cormann has now moved—which, as I said, is that the limitation of debate on the Sex Discrimination Amendment— The PRESIDENT: What is the point of order, Senator Collins? Senator Jacinta Collins: No, I'm speaking to the motion. The PRESIDENT: No, he's moved 'and the motion be put'. Senator Jacinta Collins: How can he move that such a motion now be put? The PRESIDENT: He has. Senator Jacinta Collins: We have the capacity to debate whether we should change our affairs in the way that he has proposed. The PRESIDENT: Senator Collins, please resume your seat. The question is now that the motion moved by Senator Cormann be put—the procedural matter that the question be put. The question is that the question be now put.