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senate vote 2021-10-21#8
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The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2021-10-21.44.1) 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/) - to let a vote take place. This means the vote will not take place.- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2021-10-21.44.1) 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/) - to let a vote take place. This means [the vote](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2021-10-21.53.2) can now take place.
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> *That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent me moving a motion to provide for the consideration of a matter—namely, a motion to provide that a motion relating to the failure of the government to comply with the order for the production of documents No. 1,251—may be moved immediately and have precedence over all other business until determined and be determined without amendment or debate.*- > *That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent me moving a motion to provide for the consideration of a matter—namely, a motion to provide that a motion relating to the failure of the government to comply with the order for the production of documents No. 1,251—may be moved immediately and have precedence over all other business until determined and be determined without amendment or debate.*
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senate vote 2021-10-21#8
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Documents — Climate Change; Order for the Production of Documents- Documents - Climate Change; Order for the Production of Documents - Let a vote happen
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<p class="speaker">Slade Brockman</p><p>The question now is that the motion moved by Senator Wong to suspend standing orders be agreed to.</p>-
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2021-10-21.44.1) 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/) - to let a vote take place. This means the vote will not take place.
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- > *That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent me moving a motion to provide for the consideration of a matter—namely, a motion to provide that a motion relating to the failure of the government to comply with the order for the production of documents No. 1,251—may be moved immediately and have precedence over all other business until determined and be determined without amendment or debate.*
<p><i>A division having been called and the bells being run</i> <i>g</i> <i></i></p> <p class="speaker">Penny Wong</p><p>We seek one minute. We all know there is a hard marker. Everybody was in here. We ask for a one-minute division.</p> <p class="speaker">Slade Brockman</p><p>I had an indication from one of the whips.</p> <p class="speaker">Penny Wong</p><p>Which whip? The government are running down the clock because they haven't got the numbers. I would ask that the President not collude with it.</p> <p class="speaker">Slade Brockman</p><p>I had an indication from the whip. I can see senators at the door. Senator Smith?</p> <p class="speaker">Dean Smith</p><p>Mr President, whips deciding on one- and four-minute bells is absolutely the prerogative of the whips, and it has been the custom and tradition of this chamber for as long as I have been a whip.</p> <p class="speaker">Penny Wong</p><p>Standing order 101(3) reads:</p><p class="italic">When successive divisions are taken, and there is no debate after the first division, the bells for each ensuing division shall be rung for one minute only.</p><p>Mr President, I ask you to uphold the standing orders.</p> <p class="speaker">Simon Birmingham</p><p>Mr President, the practice, by successive presidents, has been to provide warning to the chamber if one-minute bells are going to be provided. That warning was not provided. As the Chief Government Whip has indicated, that practice equally extends to the fact that the whips themselves provide indication, something I know that the opposition has done on numerous occasions.</p> <p class="speaker">Slade Brockman</p><p>As I have already ruled, there is a clear convention in this place where there is time for senators to leave the chamber. I cannot be always aware when senators leave the chamber. Therefore I take guidance on this matter from the whips. The fact I can see a number of senators waiting at the door indicates there were senators outside the chamber. Senator Abetz, on the point of order?</p> <p class="speaker">Eric Abetz</p><p>Mr President, I would invite Senator Wong to withdraw the imputation in relation to you. Irrespective of whether your ruling may be right, wrong or indifferent—I happen to think it's right—to suggest collusion by the chair is highly inappropriate and deserves to be withdrawn.</p> <p class="speaker">Penny Wong</p><p>I withdraw.</p> <p class="speaker">Slade Brockman</p><p>Thank you, Senator Wong. The question is that the motion as moved by Senator Wong be agreed to.</p><p></p><p></p> -
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