Division Description Changes — Motions — Member for Bowman — 15th Jun 2021

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representatives vote 2021-06-15#6 Edited by mackay staff on 2022-06-03 13:58:25	Title ~~Motions — Member for Bowman~~ Motions - Member for Bowman - Don't let a vote happen Description ~~<p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>~~ <p>In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion moved earlier today by the member for Lalor on which a division was called for and deferred in accordance with the standing order. No further debate is allowed. The question is that the motion moved by the member for Lalor be disagreed to.</p> The majority voted in favour of disagreeing with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2021-06-15.12.2) introduced by Lalor MP [Joanne Ryan](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/lalor/joanne_ryan) (Labor), which means it 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 Lalor from moving the following motion immediately—That the House:* > > (1) notes: > *>> (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;* >> *>> (b) the continued presence of the Member for Bowman as Chair diminishes** the important work of this Committee;* >> >> (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 >> >> (d) the Prime Minister's silence tells you everything about his respect for the views of women; and > *> (2) therefore, calls on the Acting Prime Minister to discharge the Me*mber for Bowman from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training immediately.

~~<p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>~~
<p>In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion moved earlier today by the member for Lalor on which a division was called for and deferred in accordance with the standing order. No further debate is allowed. The question is that the motion moved by the member for Lalor be disagreed to.</p>
The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2021-06-15.12.2) introduced by Lalor MP [Joanne Ryan](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/lalor/joanne_ryan) (Labor), which means it 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 Lalor from moving the following motion immediately—That the House:*
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> *(1) notes:*
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>> *(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;*
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>> *(b) the continued presence of the Member for Bowman as Chair diminishes the important work of this Committee;*
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>> *(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*
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>> *(d) the Prime Minister's silence tells you everything about his respect for the views of women; and*
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> *(2) therefore, calls on the Acting Prime Minister to discharge the Member for Bowman from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training immediately.*