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representatives vote 2017-10-26#2
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Motions — Minister for Employment- Motions - Minister for Employment - Stop MP Burke from speaking
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<p class="speaker">Tony Burke</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Manager of Opposition Business from moving immediately:</p>- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2017-10-26.77.2) to stop Labor MP for Watson [Tony Burke](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/watson/tony_burke) from speaking. In parliamentary jargon, they voted *that the member for Watson be longer heard*.
- These motions are known as *gagging* motions.
<p class="italic">That the House:</p><p class="italic">(1) notes:</p><p class="italic">(a) yesterday morning, the media aired an allegation the Employment Minister's Office had leaked the raids, which allowed television crews to turn up to the raids before the police did;</p><p class="italic">(b) by midday yesterday, the Employment Minister had five times denied that her office had been involved in leaking the raids;</p><p class="italic">(c) at the Prime Minister's Question Time briefing yesterday, attended by the Employment Minister and the Senior Media Adviser who has now resigned for leaking the raids, the Prime Minister, according to the Government's account, failed to ask a single question about the involvement of the Minister's office in leaking the raids;</p><p class="italic">(d) at 6.10 pm, Alice Workman of Buzzfeed reported that journalists received a leak about the raids from the Employment Minister's office before the raids began;</p><p class="italic">(e) at 7.30 pm, after the truth had been exposed, only then did the Employment Minister finally admit that she had misled the Senate on five separate occasions; and</p><p class="italic">(f) during the utegate scandal, the now Prime Minister himself said that misleading the Parliament "is an offence that should result in the dismissal or resignation of a Minister. It is perfectly clear"; and</p><p class="italic">(2) therefore, calls on the Prime Minister to:</p><p class="italic">(a) sack the Employment Minister for breaching Ministerial Standards by repeatedly misleading the Senate; and</p><p class="italic">(b) explain to the House his involvement, his office's involvement and his Government's involvement in this serious matter where the publicly stated version of events doesn’t add up.</p><p>The Australian Federal Police upholds the law, but this government—</p> <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p><p>The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. The Leader of the House has the call.</p> <p class="speaker">Christopher Pyne</p><p>Mr Speaker, you have to build momentum for these kinds of things. I move—</p> <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p><p>The Leader of the House will resume his seat. The Manager of Opposition Business has the call.</p> <p class="speaker">Tony Burke</p><p>The Australian Federal Police upholds the rule of law, but the government does not. This began with a complete abuse of power—</p> <p class="speaker">Josh Frydenberg</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That the Member be no longer heard.</p> <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p><p>The question is the Manager of Opposition Business be no further heard.</p>
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