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representatives vote 2020-09-03#8
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Motions — Aged Care- Motions - Aged Care - Stop Ms Collins from speaking
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<p class="speaker">Julie Collins</p><p>I seek leave to move the following motion:</p><p class="italic">That the House:</p><p class="italic">(1) notes that:</p><p class="italic">  (a) reports in this morning's News Corp newspapers that up to 100 older Australians are being assaulted in residential aged care every week;</p><p class="italic">  (b) that number could be up to ten times higher;</p><p class="italic">  (c) it will have taken more than four years for the government to establish a Serious Incident Response Scheme, after it was recommended by the Australian Law Reform; and</p><p class="italic">  (d) aged care is clearly and unambiguously a Commonwealth responsibility, and the Prime Minister must take urgent action to fix this;</p><p class="italic">(2) invites the Prime Minister to attend the chamber and make a statement on this matter.</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 Franklin from moving the following motion immediately—That the House:</p><p class="italic">(1) notes that:</p><p class="italic">  (a) reports in this morning's News Corp newspapers that up to 100 older Australians are being assaulted in residential aged care every week;</p><p class="italic">  (b) that number could be up to ten times higher;</p><p class="italic">  (c) it will have taken more than four years for the government to establish a Serious Incident Response Scheme, after it was recommended by the Australian Law Reform; and</p><p class="italic">  (d) aged care is clearly and unambiguously a Commonwealth responsibility, and the Prime Minister must take urgent action to fix this;</p><p class="italic">(2) invites the Prime Minister to attend the chamber and make a statement on this matter.</p><p>It is completely unacceptable that this government is failing older Australians and continues to fail—</p> <p class="speaker">Sussan Ley</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 Franklin be no further heard.</p> -
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2020-09-03.29.2) "*That the Member be no longer heard.*" In other words, they voted to stop Franklin MP [Julie Collins](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/franklin/julie_collins) (Labor) from speaking anymore during this debate. These motions are known as *gagging orders*.
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