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representatives vote 2016-12-01#9
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Motions — Working Holiday Maker Program- Motions - Working Holiday Maker Program - Stop Watson MP from speaking
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<p class="speaker">Tony Burke</p><p>I seek leave to move the following motion:</p><p class="italic">That the House:</p>- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2016-12-01.119.2) to stop Watson MP [Tony Burke](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/watson/tony_burke) (Labor) from speaking any further in this debate. Motions like these are known as gagging motions.
<p class="italic">(1) Notes that on the backpacker tax the Prime Minister has:</p><p class="italic">  (a) gone from zero per cent to 32.5 per cent;</p><p class="italic">  (b) to 19 per cent;</p><p class="italic">  (c) threatened 32.5 per cent;</p><p class="italic">  (d) then to 15 per cent;</p><p class="italic">  (e) threatened 32.5 per cent again; and</p><p class="italic">  (f) been unwilling to accept the sensible compromise put forward by the Labor Party; and</p><p class="italic">(2) therefore, condemns the Prime Minister for preferring to hurt rural and regional Australia and the tourism industry with a 32.5 per cent tax rate instead of accepting a sensible compromise.</p><p>Leave not granted.</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Manager of Opposition Business from moving the following motion forthwith:</p><p class="italic">That the House:</p><p class="italic">(1) Notes that on the backpacker tax the Prime Minister has:</p><p class="italic">  (a) gone from zero per cent to 32.5 per cent;</p><p class="italic">  (b) to 19 per cent;</p><p class="italic">  (c) threatened 32.5 per cent;</p><p class="italic">  (d) then to 15 per cent;</p><p class="italic">  (e) threatened 32.5 per cent again; and</p><p class="italic">  (f) been unwilling to accept the sensible compromise put forward by the Labor Party; and</p><p class="italic">(2) therefore, condemns the Prime Minister for preferring to hurt rural and regional Australia and the tourism industry with a 32.5 per cent tax rate instead of accepting a sensible compromise.</p><p>It is extraordinary that they would rather punish Australia—</p> <p class="speaker">Christopher Pyne</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That the Member be no longer heard.</p> <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p><p>The question is that the Manager of Opposition Business be no longer heard.</p><p>Is the motion seconded?</p>
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