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representatives vote 2016-10-20#9
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Motions — Prime Minister; Attempted Censure- Motions - Prime Minister; Attempted Censure - Suspend standing orders
Description
<p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p><p>The question is that the motion moved by the Manager of Opposition Business be agreed to.</p> - The majority voted against a suspending the [normal rules](http://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/standing-orders.html) of Parliament to let Labor MP [Tony Burke](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/watson/tony_burke) move a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2016-10-20.81.2) criticising the government and Prime Minister.
- This means that MP Burke won't be able to introduce his motion.
- ### Motion text
- > *That so much of the [standing orders](http://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/standing-orders.html) be suspended as would prevent the member for Watson from moving the following motion forthwith—*
- > *That the House:*
- > *(1) notes that today the Prime Minister has openly contradicted the claims of the former Prime Minister on the guns for votes scandal;*
- > *(2) notes that in the first 15 sitting days of the 45th Parliament:*
- >> *(a) the Government became the first majority Government in more than 50 years to lose control of the House of Representatives;*
- >> *(b) the Treasurer introduced legislation containing a $107 million black hole;*
- >> *(c) the Senate ran out of legislation to debate;*
- >> *(d) for the first time in Federation, a Government voted to condemn itself;*
- >> *(e) the former Prime Minister outflanked the current Prime Minister on his left and his right;*
- >> *(f) the Prime Minister was rolled by his extreme right-wing on issue after issue;*
- >> *(g) the Prime Minister condoned an Attorney-General who had misled the Parliament;*
- >> *(h) the Health Department refused to endorse the Prime Minister's absolute guarantee on the cost of seeing a doctor; and*
- >> *(i) the Government considered trading guns for votes; and*
- > *(3) therefore, censures the Prime Minister for 15 sitting days of unprecedented chaos from a Government in disarray.*
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