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representatives vote 2021-06-03#3
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Motions — Member for Bowman- Motions - Member for Bowman - Don't let a vote happen
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<p class="speaker">Rebekha Sharkie</p><p>I am a member of this committee, I believe the second-longest running member after the member for Bowman. I'm deeply concerned as a member of this committee. Just this week the committee meeting was cancelled with absolutely no notice and no communication to the other members of the committee as to why. I inquired with the secretariat, to find that the chair cancelled the meeting simply because he was awaiting a new inquiry from the relevant minister.</p>-
- The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2021-06-03.3.2) to suspend the usual parliamentary 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. This means that subsequent vote will not take place.
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- > *That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Sydney from moving the following motion immediately—That the House:*
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- > *(1) notes:*
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- >> *(a) the Member for Bowman has failed to stand down as Chair of the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training, despite pledging he would;*
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- >> *(b) for more than two months the Prime Minister has failed to do anything about that;*
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- >> *(c) the Prime Minister's failure to act on this matter tells you everything about how much this Prime Minister really listens to women; and*
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- >> *(d) the Member for Bowman's continued presence in this chamber and as Chair of the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training is a blight on the Prime Minister's record; and*
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- > *(2) therefore, calls on the Prime Minister to discharge the Member for Bowman from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training immediately.*
<p>We are in the middle of an inquiry. I find that this committee is becoming dysfunctional, and I would urge the member for Bowman to consider the needs of the parliament and the needs of the committee over his own personal needs. I would ask him to stand aside as chair, and I would ask the Prime Minister to please consider the position of a number of members of the committee. We must do good work on this committee, and it has not been done for much of this year. Thank you.</p> <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p><p>The question is the motion moved by the member for Sydney be disagreed to.</p> -
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