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Title

  • Motions Member for Pearce, Commonwealth Integrity Commission
  • Motions - Member for Pearce, Commonwealth Integrity Commission - Don't let a vote happen

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>
  • <p>The question now is that the motion moved by the Manager of Opposition Business be disagreed to.</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2021-10-21.104.2) 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 a vote happen. This means the other vote will not take place.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Manager of Opposition Business from moving the following motion immediately—That the House:*
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  • > *(1) notes that:*
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  • >> *(a) yesterday the Prime Minister protected the Member for Pearce by blocking a reference to the Committee of Privileges and Members' Interests relating to secret donations received by the Member for Pearce;*
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  • >> *(b) the decision by the Prime Minister and his government to block a reference to the Committee of Privileges and Members' Interests which had been granted precedence by the Speaker has never occurred in the 120 years of this parliament; and*
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  • >> *(c) it has been more than 1,000 days since the Prime Minister and the Member for Pearce promised to introduce a National Anti-Corruption Commission; and*
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  • > *(2) calls on the Prime Minister to immediately:*
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  • >> *(a) end his protection racket for the Member for Pearce;*
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  • >> *(b) support a referral of the Member for Pearce to the Committee of Privileges and Members' Interests; and*
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  • >> *(c) introduce a bill to establish a National Anti-Corruption Commission with the powers of a standing Royal Commission.*
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