Tim Hammond voted strongly against speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)

The majority voted in favour of a motion to speed things along. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to put the question, which means they'll now stop debating and instead immediately vote on the question.

About the bill

The purpose of the bill is to:

progressively extend the lower 27.5 per cent corporate tax rate to all corporate tax entities by the 2023-24 financial year; and further reduce the corporate tax rate in stages so that by the 2026 27 financial year, the corporate tax rate for all entities will be 25 per cent

Read more in the bills digest.

The majority voted in favour of voting on the matter immediately. In parliamentary jargon, they voted in favour of putting the question rather than debating it any further.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to speed things along. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to put the question.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to speed things along. In parliamentary jargon, they voted in put the question so that they could vote on the matter they were discussing immediately rather than speaking more about it.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to speed things along. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to 'put the question', which means debate will stop and a vote will happen immediately.

The majority voted in favour of speeding things along. In parliamentary jargon, they voted "That the question be now put". This type of motion forces the House to vote on the matter immediately rather than debating anymore.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to "put" the question. In other words, they voted to stop debate on this subject and just take the vote already.

The debate related to a motion criticising the Government's actions on the Great Barrier Reef, which was subsequently voted on.

The majority voted in favour of a motion:

That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent the motion for the third reading being moved without delay.

A "motion for a third reading" is the last vote that needs to happen in a house of Parliament before the bill can pass that house, so it's really just a vote on whether or not to pass a bill.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to speed things along. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to "put the question", which means debate has to stop and the question needs to be voted on immediately.

The majority voted in favour of speeding things along, which means they'll stop discussing the matter and vote on it immediately. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to put the question.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to speed things along. In other words, they wanted to voted immediately on whether to pass the bill (and so end the third reading stage) rather than debating it for longer. Because this vote was successful, debate ended and the House immediately voted.

These sorts of motions are known as 'closure' or 'gag' motions and in parliamentary jargon, they are motions 'to put the question'.

What is this bill all about?

The bill was introduced to implement the Coalition Government's new school funding proposal. Unfortunately, at the time of this vote there was still no bills digest to explain exactly what the new proposal is, but there is a very helpful and easy to understand explanation on The Conversation by Associate Professor Misty Adoniou. As a brief summary:

• the proposal offers more money for schools, but less than the previous Labor Government had offered;
• every student will attract the same amount of funding but the amount of funding that the federal government will provide (as opposed to the state governments) is not equal between government and non-government schools (that is, the federal government will provide 80% of the funding for non-government schools but only 20% for government schools, with the states paying the difference);
• those in need will get more funding, but the Government still doesn't have any proposal for how this will work or even how many students will be eligible for this, which leaves a big question mark over the whole proposal.

How are schools currently funded?

ABC News has created a handily jargon-free summary of how Australian schools are funded.

The majority voted on a motion to speed things along by voting on the question immediately rather than debating any further. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to "put the question". In this case, the question was whether to suspend the normal parliamentary rules so that they could decide whether to pass the bill immediately.

These sorts of motions are known as 'closure' or 'gag' motions.

What is this bill all about?

The bill was introduced to implement the Coalition Government's new school funding proposal. Unfortunately, at the time of this vote there was still no bills digest to explain exactly what the new proposal is, but there is a very helpful and easy to understand explanation on The Conversation by Associate Professor Misty Adoniou. As a brief summary:

• the proposal offers more money for schools, but less than the previous Labor Government had offered;
• every student will attract the same amount of funding but the amount of funding that the federal government will provide (as opposed to the state governments) is not equal between government and non-government schools (that is, the federal government will provide 80% of the funding for non-government schools but only 20% for government schools, with the states paying the difference);
• those in need will get more funding, but the Government still doesn't have any proposal for how this will work or even how many students will be eligible for this, which leaves a big question mark over the whole proposal.

How are schools currently funded?

ABC News has created a handily jargon-free summary of how Australian schools are funded.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to speed things along. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to put the motion of whether to agree with the main idea of the bill immediately, which is what happened.

The majority voted in favour of speeding things along. In other words, they voted to decide on Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten's motion immediately rather than discussing it anymore.

Motion text

That the motion be put.

The majority voted in favour of having the vote on whether to pass the bill immediately. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to suspend standing orders, which would normally require a certain period of time to pass before the House can vote on whether to pass the bill.

Because of this vote, there will be no more discussion of the bill in the House, which is why votes like this are sometimes called 'gags'.

Christopher Pine moved that the question be put (meaning no one else can contribute to the debate and that it should be voted on immediately).

This is a motion to 'put the question'. Members of Parliament (MPs) who vote in favour of putting the question are really voting in favour of speeding things along. In other words, they want to stop talking about a question and just vote on it already.

These types of motions are sometimes known as 'gag' motions, since they stop debate.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to speed things along.

Motion text

That the question be now put.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to speed things along.

Motion text

That the question be now put.

The majority voted in favour of "putting the motion". In other words, they voted to ask the question immediately rather than discussing it any further.

The majority voted in favour of speeding things along and having the vote on a particular motion immediately rather than discussing it any further.

What was the motion that they were discussing?

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie introduced the motion and both Independent MP Cathy McGowan and Greens MP Adam Bandt supported it.

It was that:

'the House declines to give the bill a second reading and instead:

(1) acknowledges that the global refugee crisis is for Australia a humanitarian challenge and not a border security problem;

(2) notes that Australia's response to asylum seekers will inevitably require a genuinely regional solution involving most, if not all south-east Asian countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand, and be approved by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;

(3) insists that Australia's response to asylum seekers be consistent with all of our international treaty obligations including the Refugee Convention, the Rome Statute, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and

*(4) calls on the Government to develop and implement a sophisticated policy response to this challenge that as far as possible deals with the situation in source countries, countries of first asylum and transit countries.' *

Who supported the motion?

When the vote on whether to agree to the motion was taken, only MPs Wilkie, McGowan and Bandt voted in favour of it. Since there has to be at least five MPs on either side of the vote for an official division to be recorded, the result of the vote was recorded in Votes and Proceedings but not in Hansard and, therefore, not on They Vote For You.

The majority voted in favour of speeding things along and having the vote on a particular motion immediately rather than discussing it any further.

Motion text

That the motion be put.

The majority voted in favour of speeding things along and having the vote on a particular motion immediately rather than discussing it any further.

Motion text

The question is that the motion be put.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to vote on the question being discussed now and not debating anymore.

Motion text

The question is that the motion be put.

The majority voted in favour of putting the motion. This is parliamentary jargon for speeding things along. By voting in favour of this question, the majority has voted to end debate on an issue by immediately voting on it.

The motion being debated here was introduced by Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and was voted on immediately after this vote.

Motion text

That the question be put.

In other words, stop debating and vote on the question before the House.

The majority voted in favour of a motion to vote on whether to pass the bill now rather than continuing to debate.