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representatives vote 2017-10-25#8
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Motions — Prime Minister- Motions - Prime Minister - Suspend rules to let vote happen
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 [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2017-10-25.97.2) introduced by Labor MP for Watson [Tony Burke](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/watson/tony_burke) to suspend the rules (known as [standing orders](https://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/standing-orders.html)) to let a vote happen. This means the motion failed.
- ### Motion text
- > *That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Watson from moving the following motion immediately:*
- > *The House:*
- > *(1) notes:*
- >> *(a) yesterday, it was revealed the Australian Federal Police (AFP) did not have the resources to investigate the importation of 1.6 tonnes of cocaine;*
- >> *(b) on the very same day, the Prime Minister’s Registered Organisations Commission sent at least 25 AFP officers to look at a 10-year-old donation to GetUp;*
- >> *(c) in so doing, this Government diverted police resources needed to fight drug syndicates to protect his own political interests; and*
- >> *(d) that this is just the latest example of this Prime Minister’s willingness to abuse his power and debase the Office of Prime Minister; and*
- > *(2) therefore, condemns this born-to-rule Prime Minister for his grubby attacks and blatant abuses of power designed to protect his own political interests instead of protecting Australians.*
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