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representatives vote 2020-09-03#3

Edited by mackay staff

on 2023-02-03 12:43:03

Title

  • Motions - Covid-19 - Let a vote happen
  • Motions - Covid-19 - Don't let a vote happen

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representatives vote 2020-09-03#3

Edited by mackay staff

on 2023-02-03 12:42:37

Title

  • Motions - Covid-19 - Hydroxychloroquine
  • Motions - Covid-19 - Let a vote happen

Description

  • The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2020-09-03.6.2) introduced by McMahon MP [Chris Bowen](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/mcmahon/chris_bowen) (Labor), which means it failed.
  • The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2020-09-03.6.2) introduced by McMahon MP [Chris Bowen](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/mcmahon/chris_bowen) (Labor), which means it failed.
  • [Standing orders](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/parliament-at-work/standing-orders/) are the usual procedural rules of parliament.
  • This motion would have suspended the usual procedural rules - known as [standing orders](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/parliament-at-work/standing-orders/) - in order to let another vote take place.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *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:*
  • >
  • > *(1) notes that:*
  • >
  • >> *(a) the Member for Hughes and the Member for Dawson continue to claim that hydroxychloroquine should be used against COVID-19;*
  • >>
  • >> *(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*
  • >>
  • >> *(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*
  • >
  • > *(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.*
  • > *(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.*
representatives vote 2020-09-03#3

Edited by mackay staff

on 2023-02-03 12:41:42

Title

  • Motions Covid-19
  • Motions - Covid-19 - Hydroxychloroquine

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>
  • <p>The question is that the motion moved by the member for McMahon be disagreed to.</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2020-09-03.6.2) introduced by McMahon MP [Chris Bowen](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/mcmahon/chris_bowen) (Labor), which means it failed.
  • [Standing orders](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/parliament-at-work/standing-orders/) are the usual procedural rules of parliament.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *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:*
  • >
  • > *(1) notes that:*
  • >
  • >> *(a) the Member for Hughes and the Member for Dawson continue to claim that hydroxychloroquine should be used against COVID-19;*
  • >>
  • >> *(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*
  • >>
  • >> *(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*
  • >
  • > *(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.*