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senate vote 2023-03-28#1
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Title
Business — Rearrangement- Business - Rearrangement - Speed things along
Description
<p class="speaker">Don Farrell</p><p>I seek leave to move a motion relating to the hours of meeting and routine of business this week.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Is leave granted?</p><p>Leave not granted.</p> <p class="speaker">Don Farrell</p><p>Pursuant to contingent notice standing in the name of the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong, I move:</p><p class="italic">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 hours of meeting and routine of business this week may be moved immediately and determined without amendment or debate.</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That the question be now put.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Birmingham?</p> <p class="speaker">Simon Birmingham</p><p>President, what we have here is an attempt from the government to guillotine its guillotine.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Birmingham—</p> <p class="speaker">Simon Birmingham</p><p>The government are seeking to guillotine their own guillotine because they don't want to have debate—</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Birmingham, I'm calling you to order.</p><p>Opposition senators interjecting—</p><p>Order on my left! Senator Birmingham, I—</p><p>Honourable senators interjecting—</p><p>Senator McGrath and Senator Gallagher! Order on both sides of the chamber! Senator Birmingham, you stood, I gave you the call, and then you didn't call a point of order. I asked you to sit. In future, when I ask you to sit, I should not have to ask a leader of a political party to sit three or four times. The question is that the question be put.</p><p></p><p></p> -
- That majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2023-03-28.92.2):
- > *That the question be now put.*
- In other words, they voted to end debate on the issue and instead vote on it straight away.
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