Division Description Changes — Motions — Minister for Home Affairs — 15th Feb 2021

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representatives vote 2021-02-15#11 Edited by mackay staff on 2022-10-14 12:15:45	Title ~~Motions — Minister for Home Affairs~~ Motions - Minister for Home Affairs - Don't let a vote happen Description ~~<p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>~~ <p>The question now is that the motion moved by the member for Shortland be disagreed to.</p> The majority voted in favour of disagreeing with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2021-02-15.120.2) introduced by Shortland MP [Pat Conroy](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/shortland/pat_conroy) (Labor), which means the motion failed. The motion was 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/) - 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 Shortland from** moving the following motion immediately—That the House:* > > (1) notes: > *>> (a) the Minister for Home Affairs cut funding to projects recommend*ed by community safety experts in his department to fund projects in marginal and government-held electorates; >> *>> (b) the Minister for Home Affairs announced funding for two projects during the Braddon by-election before grant guidelines were finalised, before grant applications were written,** and before his department had provided him with advice, which was the projects were "unsuitable and ineligible";* >> >> (c) the Minister for Home Affairs also gave $880,000 from the proceeds of crime to the National Retail Association after it made a donation to support the Minister's election campaign; and >> >> (d) this is just the latest scandal involving the Government rorting taxpayers' money to advance its political interests; and > > (2) therefore, calls on the Minister for Home Affairs to immediately explain his actions to the House for a period not exceeding 15 minutes.

~~<p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>~~
<p>The question now is that the motion moved by the member for Shortland be disagreed to.</p>
The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2021-02-15.120.2) introduced by Shortland MP [Pat Conroy](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/shortland/pat_conroy) (Labor), which means the motion failed.
The motion was 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/) - 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 Shortland from moving the following motion immediately—That the House:*
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> *(1) notes:*
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>> *(a) the Minister for Home Affairs cut funding to projects recommended by community safety experts in his department to fund projects in marginal and government-held electorates;*
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>> *(b) the Minister for Home Affairs announced funding for two projects during the Braddon by-election before grant guidelines were finalised, before grant applications were written, and before his department had provided him with advice, which was the projects were "unsuitable and ineligible";*
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>> *(c) the Minister for Home Affairs also gave $880,000 from the proceeds of crime to the National Retail Association after it made a donation to support the Minister's election campaign; and*
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>> *(d) this is just the latest scandal involving the Government rorting taxpayers' money to advance its political interests; and*
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> *(2) therefore, calls on the Minister for Home Affairs to immediately explain his actions to the House for a period not exceeding 15 minutes.*