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representatives vote 2020-09-03#1
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Motions — Covid-19- Motions - Covid-19 - Stop Mr Bowen from speaking
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<p class="speaker">Chris Bowen</p><p>I seek leave of the House to move the following motion:</p>-
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2020-09-03.6.2) to stop McMahon MP [Chris Bowen](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/mcmahon/chris_bowen) (Labor) from speaking anymore in this debate. These are known as *gagging orders.*
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- > *That the Member be no longer heard.*
<p class="italic">That the House:</p><p class="italic">(1) notes that:</p><p class="italic">  (a) the Member for Hughes and the Member for Dawson continue to claim that hydroxychloroquine should be used against COVID-19;</p><p class="italic">  (b) these claims are contradicted by the Therapeutic Goods Administration and Chief Medical Officer, who said in a press conference on 31 August 2020 that "the medical advice is it is not useful as a medicine" for COVID-19; and</p><p class="italic">  (c) in the same press conference, when given an opportunity to support the Therapeutic Goods Administration and Chief Medical Officer, the Minister for Health instead supported the "people on many sides of this Parliament who will express individual views"; and</p><p class="italic">(2) commends the Therapeutic Goods Administration and Chief Medical Officer for accepting and promoting evidence, and urges the Minister for Health to do the same.</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—That the House:</p><p class="italic">(1) notes that:</p><p class="italic">  (a) the Member for Hughes and the Member for Dawson continue to claim that hydroxychloroquine should be used against COVID-19;</p><p class="italic">  (b) these claims are contradicted by the Therapeutic Goods Administration and Chief Medical Officer, who said in a press conference on 31 August 2020 that "the medical advice is it is not useful as a medicine" for COVID-19; and</p><p class="italic">  (c) in the same press conference, when given an opportunity to support the Therapeutic Goods Administration and Chief Medical Officer, the Minister for Health instead supported the "people on many sides of this Parliament who will express individual views"; and</p><p class="italic">(2) commends the Therapeutic Goods Administration and Chief Medical Officer for accepting and promoting evidence, and urges the Minister for Health to do the same.</p><p>In a pandemic there will be misinformation but it should not come from this chamber and the government—</p> <p class="speaker">Alan Tudge</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That the Member no longer be heard.</p> <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p><p>The question is that the member for McMahon be no further heard.</p> -
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