Division Description Changes — Motions — Covid-19: Vaccine — 2nd Sep 2020

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Title

  • Motions — Covid-19: Vaccine
  • Motions - Covid-19: Vaccine - Stop MP Bowen from speaking

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Chris Bowen</p>
  • <p>I seek leave to move the following motion:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the House:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(1) notes:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(a) two weeks ago today, the Prime Minister and Minister for Health claimed to have signed a COVID-19 vaccine supply deal with AstraZeneca;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(b) when the Minister for Health quoted AstraZeneca in the House on 1 September 2020, he omitted the company&#8217;s clarification that it had only signed a "letter of intent", and that "there are still many details to be confirmed"; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(c) in contrast to Australia's one letter of intent, at least 17 countries have signed at least 49 supply agreements, covering at least six billion doses of potential COVID-19 vaccines; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(2) therefore, calls on the Minister for Health to lay on the table by no later than 9.30 am on Thursday, 3 September 2020, the so-called 'deal' with AstraZeneca referred to by the Minister for Health, and to explain to the House whether a single dose of any potential COVID-19 vaccine has been secured for Australia.</p>
  • <p>Leave not granted.</p>
  • <p>I move:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for McMahon from moving the following motion immediately:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the House:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(1) notes:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(a) two weeks ago today, the Prime Minister and Minister for Health claimed to have signed a COVID-19 vaccine supply deal with AstraZeneca;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(b) when the Minister for Health quoted AstraZeneca in the House on 1 September 2020, he omitted the company&#8217;s clarification that it had only signed a "letter of intent", and that "there are still many details to be confirmed"; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(c) in contrast to Australia's one letter of intent, at least 17 countries have signed at least 49 supply agreements, covering at least six billion doses of potential COVID-19 vaccines; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(2) therefore, calls on the Minister for Health to lay on the table by no later than 9.30 am on Thursday, 3 September 2020, the so-called 'deal' with AstraZeneca referred to by the Minister for Health, and to explain to the House whether a single dose of any potential COVID-19 vaccine has been secured for Australia.</p>
  • <p>If there is a deal, the government should welcome this debate. They should embrace this motion. They should love this motion.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Dan Tehan</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 member for McMahon be no further heard.</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2020-09-02.4.4):
  • > *That the Member [McMahon MP [Chris Bowen](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/mcmahon/chris_bowen) (Labor)] be no longer heard.*
  • This means that Mr Bowen will not be able to speak any more during this debate. These types of motions are known as *gagging orders*.