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representatives vote 2021-06-15#3

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on 2022-06-10 12:47:36

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  • Motions Member for Bowman
  • Motions - Member for Bowman - Stop MP for Lalor from speaking

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Joanne Ryan</p>
  • <p>I move:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Lalor from moving the following motion immediately&#8212;That the House:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(1) notes:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(a) the Member for Bowman remains Chair of the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training despite pledging to resign from all parliamentary positions in March;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(b) the continued presence of the Member for Bowman as Chair diminishes the important work of this Committee;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(c) that Opposition Members of the committee wrote to the Prime Minister nearly three weeks ago asking him to act, and he has not even responded; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(d) the Prime Minister's silence tells you everything about his respect for the views of women; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(2) therefore, calls on the Acting Prime Minister to discharge the Member for Bowman from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training immediately.</p>
  • <p>This man was accused of stalking a teacher while hiding in the bushes, and he shouldn't be chair of the education&#8212;</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Mark Coulton</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 Lalor be no further heard.</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2021-06-15.13.4):
  • > *That the Member [Lalor MP [Joanne Ryan](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/lalor/joanne_ryan)] be no longer heard.*
  • This means that Ms Ryan can no longer contribute to this debate. These motions are known as *gagging orders*.