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representatives vote 2020-08-25#5
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Title
Motions - Covid-19: State and Territory Border Closures - Let a vote happen- Motions - Covid-19: State and Territory Border Closures - Don't let a vote happen
Description
- The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a motion to suspend the usual procedural rules - known as [standing orders](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/parliament-at-work/standing-orders/) - to let a vote happen.
- ### Motion text
- > *That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Brand from moving the following motion immediately:*
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- > *That the House:*
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- > *(1) notes that:*
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- >> *(a) today, the Federal Court found the Western Australian border closures were an 'effective' measure to combat COVID-19 entering the state;*
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- >> *(b) the Commonwealth, led by the Attorney-General who himself is a Western Australian, intervened in support of billionaire Clive Palmer's attempts to force open the borders against the will of the Western Australian people;*
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- >> *(c) the Commonwealth's subsequent withdrawal from the case prejudiced the Western Australian position, according to a Federal Court judge, and cost taxpayers unknown thousands of wasted dollars in legal fees;*
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- >> *(d) the Prime Minister and Attorney-General put the interests of a billionaire who is trying to bankrupt the state of Western Australia over the health of Western Australians; and*
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- >> *(e) the people of Western Australia will not forget this betrayal, and deserve an apology from the Attorney-General, the Prime Minister, and the Morrison Government; and*
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> *(2) therefore, calls on the Attorney-General to attend the House immediately and be given leave to make a ministerial statement explaining his government's actions.*- > *(2) therefore, calls on the Attorney-General to attend the House immediately and be given leave to make a ministerial statement explaining his government's actions.*
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representatives vote 2020-08-25#5
Edited by
mackay staff
on
2020-08-28 09:53:52
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Title
Motions — Covid-19: State and Territory Border Closures- Motions - Covid-19: State and Territory Border Closures - Let a vote happen
Description
<p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p><p>The question now is that the motion moved by the member for Brand be disagreed to.</p> - The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a motion to suspend the usual procedural rules - known as [standing orders](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/parliament-at-work/standing-orders/) - to let a vote happen.
- ### Motion text
- > *That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Brand from moving the following motion immediately:*
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- > *That the House:*
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- > *(1) notes that:*
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- >> *(a) today, the Federal Court found the Western Australian border closures were an 'effective' measure to combat COVID-19 entering the state;*
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- >> *(b) the Commonwealth, led by the Attorney-General who himself is a Western Australian, intervened in support of billionaire Clive Palmer's attempts to force open the borders against the will of the Western Australian people;*
- >>
- >> *(c) the Commonwealth's subsequent withdrawal from the case prejudiced the Western Australian position, according to a Federal Court judge, and cost taxpayers unknown thousands of wasted dollars in legal fees;*
- >>
- >> *(d) the Prime Minister and Attorney-General put the interests of a billionaire who is trying to bankrupt the state of Western Australia over the health of Western Australians; and*
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- >> *(e) the people of Western Australia will not forget this betrayal, and deserve an apology from the Attorney-General, the Prime Minister, and the Morrison Government; and*
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- > *(2) therefore, calls on the Attorney-General to attend the House immediately and be given leave to make a ministerial statement explaining his government's actions.*
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