1st Jun 2021, 4:26 PM – Representatives Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen

The majority voted in favour of disagreeing with a motion to suspend the usual parliamentary procedural rules - known as standing orders - in order to let another vote take place. This means that subsequent vote will not take place.

Motion text

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Hindmarsh from moving the following motion immediately:

That the House:

(1) notes:

(a) the Prime Minister had two jobs this year, to get the vaccine rollout right and to create a safe, national quarantine system, and the Victorian outbreak has shown he has failed at both;

(b) the Prime Minister announced these aged care residents and staff would be vaccinated by Easter but has failed to deliver, leaving them vulnerable;

(c) shockingly, when asked this morning, the Aged Care Minister could not even say how many aged care residents in Victoria had been fully vaccinated;

(d) in November last year, the Government ceased its efforts to prevent aged care workers working in multiple facilities in Australia; and

(e) this Government has failed its basic duty to protect older and vulnerable Australians; and

(2) therefore, calls on the Prime Minister to attend the Chamber and make a statement of no more than 30 minutes in length accounting for these failures.