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senate vote 2021-06-16#8
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Bills — Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021; First Reading- Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021 - First Reading - Consider the bill
Description
<p class="speaker">Larissa Waters</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to establish an inquiry into whether Christian Porter is a fit and proper person to be a Minister of State, and for related purposes. <i>Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021</i>.</p>- The majority voted against a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2021-06-16.157.2) introduced by Queensland Senator [Larissa Waters](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/queensland/larissa_waters), which means it failed. The motion was to read the bill for a [first time](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/). To read a bill for a first time is to agree to consider it. Usually, a first reading is granted as a matter of course and only ever refused when a bill is highly controversial - like this one.
- ### What is this bill about?
- The purpose of the [Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/s1300) is to "*[establish] an inquiry into whether [Christian Porter](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/pearce/christian_porter) is a fit and proper person to be a Minister of State*."
<p>Question agreed to.</p><p>I present the bill and move:</p><p class="italic">That this bill may proceed without formalities and be now read a first time.</p> <p class="speaker">Scott Ryan</p><p>The question is that the bill being introduced by Senator Waters be read a first time.</p>
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