Division Description Changes — Motions — Covid-19 — 23rd Jun 2021

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representatives vote 2021-06-23#4 Edited by mackay staff on 2022-05-27 14:30:11	Title ~~Motions — Covid-19~~ Motions - Covid-19 - Don't let a vote happen Description ~~<p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>~~ <p>The question now is that the motion moved by the honourable Leader of the Opposition be disagreed to.</p> The *majority voted in favour of disagreeing* with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2021-06-23.61.2) introduced by Leader of the Opposition and Grayndler MP [Anthony Albanese](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/grayndler/anthony_albanese) (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 Leader of the Opposition from* moving the following motion immediately:* > > That the House: > > (1) notes: > >> (a) there is a global pandemic; >> *>> (b)** there have been at least 25 COVID outbreaks from hotel quarantine;* >> >> (c) fewer than three per cent of Australians are fully vaccinated; >> *>> (d) the Prime Minister had two jobs this year, to rollout the vaccine and establish a safe, national system** of quarantine, and he has bungled both jobs;* >> >> (e) the outbreak in Sydney is worsening by the hour; >> *>> (f) new restric*tions are being imposed on businesses and households; >> >> (g) borders are slamming shut as Australia heads into school holidays; >> >> (h) the Prime Minister says the vaccine rollout is not a race; and >> >> (i) the NSW Premier said today "New South Wales has had a real sense of urgency in relation to the vaccine rollout. Until the vast majority of our population is vaccinated these threats will be real and ongoing"; and > > (2) therefore, calls on the Prime Minister to urgently fix his bungled vaccine rollout and establish a safe, national system of quarantine.

~~<p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>~~
<p>The question now is that the motion moved by the honourable Leader of the Opposition be disagreed to.</p>
The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2021-06-23.61.2) introduced by Leader of the Opposition and Grayndler MP [Anthony Albanese](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/grayndler/anthony_albanese) (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 Leader of the Opposition from moving the following motion immediately:*
>
> *That the House:*
>
> *(1) notes:*
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>> *(a) there is a global pandemic;*
>>
>> *(b) there have been at least 25 COVID outbreaks from hotel quarantine;*
>>
>> *(c) fewer than three per cent of Australians are fully vaccinated;*
>>
>> *(d) the Prime Minister had two jobs this year, to rollout the vaccine and establish a safe, national system of quarantine, and he has bungled both jobs;*
>>
>> *(e) the outbreak in Sydney is worsening by the hour;*
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>> *(f) new restrictions are being imposed on businesses and households;*
>>
>> *(g) borders are slamming shut as Australia heads into school holidays;*
>>
>> *(h) the Prime Minister says the vaccine rollout is not a race; and*
>>
>> *(i) the NSW Premier said today "New South Wales has had a real sense of urgency in relation to the vaccine rollout. Until the vast majority of our population is vaccinated these threats will be real and ongoing"; and*
>
> *(2) therefore, calls on the Prime Minister to urgently fix his bungled vaccine rollout and establish a safe, national system of quarantine.*