Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (09:32): The government will be opposing this motion from Senator Hanson. As Senator Hanson, One Nation and the opposition well know, it is not the convention and custom of this place that bills be debated in the same week that they are introduced. There hasn't been an opportunity for us to properly consider this bill. We haven't had an opportunity to take it to our party room. That is why the convention in this place is that bills don't get passed and debated in the same week that they are introduced. We'd be happy to work with Senator Hanson and One Nation on a motion regarding this topic, but we will be following the usual convention and not supporting the passage of this bill today. On that basis, I move: That the question be now put. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Ciccone ): Senator McKenzie, a point of order? Senator McKenzie: On precedence, previous rulings have made it clear that the leader of the opposition would take precedence over a minister in the case of an equal jump. I'd like you to actually rule on your call earlier. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Minister? Senator Watt: I recognise that you were dealing with matters at the end of my remarks. I actually moved, before Senator McKenzie's point of order, that the question be put. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senators, as I understood from the clerk—I sought advice just before—the minister that is leading for the government takes precedence over the leader of the opposition. Having said that, I'm happy to refer the matter to the President for review. On that matter, I do have a question before the chair that the question now be put. The PRESIDENT: The question is that the motion moved by Senator Watt be agreed to.