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representatives vote 2013-06-05#2
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Motions — National Security- Motions - National Security - That the member be no longer heard
Description
<p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>In light of the Prime Minister's concession that national security has not been adequately handled in relation—</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p>- The majority voted against a [http://www.openaustralia.org/debate/?id=2013-06-05.101.1 motion] introduced by Labor MP [http://publicwhip-test.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/mp.php?mpn=Anthony_Albanese&mpc=Grayndler&house=representatives Anthony Albanese]. The motion was: "''That the member be no longer heard''" and referred to Liberal MP [http://publicwhip-test.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/mp.php?mpn=Michael_Keenan&mpc=Stirling&house=representatives Michael Keenan].
- This sort of motion cuts debate short and is known as a ‘closure of Member’.[1]
- ''Background to the motion''
- Mr Albanese introduced this 'closure of Member' motion after Mr Keenan moved a [http://www.openaustralia.org/debate/?id=2013-06-05.100.16 motion] in respect to "the placing of a convicted Egyptian jihadist terrorist in a low security family detention facility in the Adelaide Hills".[2]
- References
- * [1] See this [http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/House_of_Representatives/Powers_practice_and_procedure/00_-_Infosheets/Infosheet_14_-_Making_decisions_-_debate_and_division infosheet] for more information on these types of motions.
- * [2] Read more about this incident on ABC News [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-05/gillard-order-inquiry-into-handling-of-egyptian-terrorist-case/4735494 here].
<p>No, question time has concluded.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>I seek leave—</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>You need to start with that.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>Okay. I seek leave. In light of the Prime Minister's concession that national security has not been adequately handled in relation to the detention of a convicted Egyptian terrorist in the Adelaide Hills—</p><p class="italic">Mr Dreyfus interjecting—</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>Order, the Attorney-General! I do actually need to know what the member for Stirling is requesting of me.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>Madam Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion.</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>Thank you.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>In light of the Prime Minister's concession that national security has not been adequately handled in relation to the detention of a convicted Egyptian terrorist in the low-security Adelaide Hills detention centre—</p><p class="italic">Mr Husic interjecting—</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>Order, the member for Chifley! The member for Stirling is seeking to move the motion, and then we will see if leave is granted. Is leave granted?</p> <p class="speaker">Julia Gillard</p><p>Leave is not granted, on the basis that the motion contains an outrageous distortion of what I said to the parliament today, and clearly the motion is therefore pursuing the opposition's campaign of dishonesty.</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>The Prime Minister will resume her seat.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Stirling moving the following motion forthwith:</p><p class="italic">That the Prime Minister immediately commission a cross government review into the Government’s incompetent handling of the circumstances surrounding the placing of a convicted Egyptian jihadist terrorist in a low security family detention facility in the Adelaide Hills including:</p><p class="italic">(1) when was the Prime Minister, the Attorney-General, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and the Home Affairs Minister first made aware of the presence of the Egyptian terrorist in the detention network and when did each responsible department or agency brief their Minister and the Prime Minister;</p><p class="italic">(2) the adequacy of communication arrangements and intelligence sharing between the relevant departments and agencies on matters of national security;</p><p class="italic">(3) the effects of the Governments budget cuts on our national security agencies ability to detect such cases particularly the $6.9 million cut to ASIO’s budget for security screening of asylum seekers; and</p><p class="italic">(4) a review of any similar cases including those of a Sri Lankan man accused of murder who was released into the community on a bridging visa and an accused Iranian drug smuggler.</p><p>This is like government by Sergeant Schultz: nobody knows anything on national security. The Prime Minister—</p> <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p><p>I rise on a point of order, Speaker. It goes to whether this motion would be in order given that the Prime Minister has already announced an inquiry by the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security and therefore this motion is redundant.</p> <p class="speaker">Christopher Pyne</p><p>Madam Speaker, on the point of order: the Leader of the House is simply time wasting, and I hate to add to it, but the point of this motion is that the House and the parliament should be able to debate the need for a cross-government inquiry into this fiasco. Yes, the Prime Minister has announced that she will ask the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security—</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. The member for Stirling has the call.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>Thank you, Madam Speaker. We have heard in question time today that nobody within this government knows anything about national security.</p> <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p><p>Speaker, on a point of order: the member should withdraw that accusation, which is simply false and goes to national security.</p><p class="italic">Mr Dutton interjecting—</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>Order, the member for Dickson! The member for Stirling will withdraw and has the call.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>I am happy to substantiate it, Madam Speaker.</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>No, the member for Stirling has been asked to withdraw.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>I withdraw.</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>I thank the member.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>What we have heard in question time today on this serious breach of national security is that the immigration minister does not know anything, the Minister for Home Affairs does not think he should know anything—</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>The member for Stirling will resume his seat. The Leader of the House will resume his seat. The member for Stirling is moving a suspension. If he continues along this line, I will sit him down. The member for Stirling can argue his case. He should do so within the suspension and the issue before the chair, without the imputation. The member for Stirling has the call.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>Standing orders must be suspended because this is an urgent matter, and it is an urgent matter because we are dealing with a grave breach of national security, and nobody in the government will take responsibility for it.</p> <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p><p>Speaker, on a point of order: the member for Stirling continues to abuse what should be the processes of standing orders and continues to argue the case as if the suspension had been carried. It has not. He has to refer to a suspension of standing orders—</p><p class="italic">Ms Julie Bishop interjecting—</p><p>as he is being instructed by the deputy leader now.</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>The Leader of the House will resume his seat.</p><p class="italic">Ms Julie Bishop interjecting—</p> <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p><p>I ask that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition withdraw.</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>Could the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, for the assistance of the House, withdraw.</p> <p class="speaker">Julie Bishop</p><p>I withdraw.</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. The member for Stirling has the call on the suspension of standing orders.</p> <p class="speaker">Michael Keenan</p><p>Standing orders need to be suspended because nothing is more important than national security, and we have heard in question time today that we do not have a government that is prepared to take responsibility for it even when it has been breached in such a grievous way.</p> <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p><p>Speaker, I gave him every opportunity but, on the basis that he is incapable of taking it up, I move:</p><p class="italic">That the member be no longer heard.</p> <p class="speaker">Anna Burke</p><p>The question is that the member be no longer heard.</p>
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