Division Description Changes — Motions — Economy — 8th May 2018

All changes made to the description and title of this division.

View division | Edit description

Change Division
representatives vote 2018-05-08#1

Edited by mackay staff

on 2018-05-11 14:12:46

Title

  • Motions — Economy
  • Motions - Economy - Suspend standing orders

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Kevin Hogan</p>
  • <p>In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion to suspend standing orders moved earlier today by the honourable member for McMahon on which a division was called for and deferred in accordance with the standing order. No further debate is allowed.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>
  • The majority voted against letting a vote happen. In parliamentary jargon, they voted against suspending standing orders (the procedural rules of Parliament) so that Labor MP [Chris Bowen](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/mcmahon/chris_bowen) could move a [particular motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2018-05-08.4.2). Since this vote was unsuccessful, Mr Bowen was not able to proceed with his motion.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *That so much of the [standing orders](https://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/standing-orders.html) be suspended as would prevent the Member for McMahon from moving the following motion forthwith—That the House:*
  • > *(1) notes:*
  • >> *(a) before coming to office, the Coalition railed about a debt and deficit disaster;*
  • >> *(b) global economic conditions are the best they've been in years, with the International Monetary Fund stating "120 economies, accounting for three quarters of world GDP, have seen a pickup in growth in year-on-year terms in 2017, the broadest synchronized global growth upsurge since 2010";*
  • >> *(c) since this conservative Government came to office gross debt has increased to a record half a trillion dollars and is expected to be even higher in tonight's Budget with no peak in sight;*
  • >> *(d) net debt has doubled and is growing as a proportion of the economy more rapidly than almost every other advanced economy; and*
  • >> *(e) last night on 7.30, former Howard Government Treasurer, Peter Costello, said that he would be dead before the Government paid back its debt; and*
  • > *(2) therefore, condemns this conservative Government for giving up on Budget repair and for its failure to address the long-term structural problems in the Budget.*
  • <p>The question is that the motion moved by the member for McMahon be agreed to.</p>