Division Description Changes — Motions — Budget — 5th May 2016

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representatives vote 2016-05-05#4 Edited by mackay staff on 2016-08-23 13:28:40	Title ~~Motions — Budget~~ Motions - Budget - Suspend standing orders Description <p class="motion-notice motion-notice-notext">No motion text available</p> The majority voted against a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2016-05-05.24.2) to suspend the procedural rules (known as the [standing orders](http://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/standing-orders.html)) so that Labor MP [Chris Bowen](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/mcmahon/chris_bowen) (the Member for McMahon) could introduce a motion for House of Representatives to vote on. ### Motion text > That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for McMahon from moving the following motion forthwith: > (1) notes that in an extraordinary interview with David Speers on Sky News this morning: >> (a) the Prime Minister said that Treasury “has not identified the dollar cost” of the centrepiece of his Budget, the 10-year tax cut for big business: >>> (i) but a moment later, the Prime Minister said Treasury had modelled the cost; and >>> (ii) yet later, the Prime Minister said the cost of his centrepiece 10-year tax cut for big business was outlined on page 3-11 of Budget Paper No. 1 despite the fact, that page does not mention companies or corporations or small businesses even once; and >> (b) the Prime Minister said the $55 billion cost of his centrepiece 10-year tax cut for big business nominated by economist Chris Richardson “may well be right”; > (2) condemns the Prime Minister for delivering a Budget which is a fraud on the Australian people by having a centrepiece without a cost attached; and > (3) calls on the Prime Minister to attend the House to finally come clean about the 10-year cost for the 10-year tax cut for big business.

<p class="motion-notice motion-notice-notext">No motion text available</p>
The majority voted against a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2016-05-05.24.2) to suspend the procedural rules (known as the [standing orders](http://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/standing-orders.html)) so that Labor MP [Chris Bowen](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/mcmahon/chris_bowen) (the Member for McMahon) could introduce a motion for House of Representatives to vote on.
### Motion text
> *That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for McMahon from moving the following motion forthwith:*
> *(1) notes that in an extraordinary interview with David Speers on Sky News this morning:*
>> *(a) the Prime Minister said that Treasury “has not identified the dollar cost” of the centrepiece of his Budget, the 10-year tax cut for big business:*
>>> *(i) but a moment later, the Prime Minister said Treasury had modelled the cost; and*
>>> *(ii) yet later, the Prime Minister said the cost of his centrepiece 10-year tax cut for big business was outlined on page 3-11 of Budget Paper No. 1 despite the fact, that page does not mention companies or corporations or small businesses even once; and*
>> *(b) the Prime Minister said the $55 billion cost of his centrepiece 10-year tax cut for big business nominated by economist Chris Richardson “may well be right”;*
> *(2) condemns the Prime Minister for delivering a Budget which is a fraud on the Australian people by having a centrepiece without a cost attached; and*
> *(3) calls on the Prime Minister to attend the House to finally come clean about the 10-year cost for the 10-year tax cut for big business.*