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representatives vote 2020-02-27#1
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Motions — Prime Minister- Motions - Prime Minister - Stop Ms King from speaking
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<p class="speaker">Catherine King</p><p>I seek leave to move the following motion:</p><p class="italic">That the House:</p>- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2020-02-27.4.1) to stop Ballarat MP [Catherine King](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/ballarat/catherine_king) (Labor) from speaking any further in this debate. Motions like these are known as 'gagging motions' and this one was introduced by Gippsland MP [Darren Chester](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/gippsland/darren_chester) (Nationals).
<p class="italic">(1) notes the Prime Minister:</p><p class="italic">(a) has taken his rorts to the streets, allocating more than 83 percent of the $3 billion Urban Congestion Fund to Liberal seats and marginal seats targeted by the Liberal Party;</p><p class="italic">(b) allocated funding to every Liberal seat that was marginal or under threat, as well as several marginal regional electorates held or targeted by the Liberal Party;</p><p class="italic">(c) did not allocate a cent to address congestion in 38 urban and regional city seats held by non-Government Members;</p><p class="italic">(d) incorrectly claimed the projects were election commitments, when the Urban Congestion Fund was established in the 2018 Budget;</p><p class="italic">(e) did not release any guidelines, did not formally call for expressions of interest, did not spend a cent from the Urban Congestion Fund in 2018-19, but did spend $17 million of government resources on pre-election advertisements telling us how good it was; and</p><p class="italic">(f) repeatedly sought to downplay and dismiss the serious allegation that his government continually spends taxpayer dollars for private political gain; and</p><p class="italic">(2) therefore calls on the Prime Minister to:</p><p class="italic">(a) correct his incorrect statement that Urban Congestion Fund projects are election commitments; and</p><p class="italic">(b) explain why his Government used taxpayer money as though it was its own personal marketing fund.</p><p>Leave not granted.</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Ballarat from moving the following motion immediately:</p><p class="italic">That the House:</p><p class="italic">(1) notes the Prime Minister:</p><p class="italic">(a) has taken his rorts to the streets, allocating more than 83 percent of the $3 billion Urban Congestion Fund to Liberal seats and marginal seats targeted by the Liberal Party;</p><p class="italic">(b) allocated funding to every Liberal seat that was marginal or under threat, as well as several marginal regional electorates held or targeted by the Liberal Party;</p><p class="italic">(c) did not allocate a cent to address congestion in 38 urban and regional city seats held by non-Government Members;</p><p class="italic">(d) incorrectly claimed the projects were election commitments, when the Urban Congestion Fund was established in the 2018 Budget;</p><p class="italic">(e) did not release any guidelines, did not formally call for expressions of interest, did not spend a cent from the Urban Congestion Fund in 2018-19, but did spend $17 million of government resources on pre-election advertisements telling us how good it was; and</p><p class="italic">(f) repeatedly sought to downplay and dismiss the serious allegation that his government continually spends taxpayer dollars for private political gain; and</p><p class="italic">(2) therefore calls on the Prime Minister to:</p><p class="italic">(a) correct his incorrect statement that Urban Congestion Fund projects are election commitments; and</p><p class="italic">(b) explain why his Government used taxpayer money as though it was its own personal marketing fund.</p><p>There is not a program that this government will not rort for its own political—</p> <p class="speaker">Darren Chester</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 that the member for Ballarat be no longer heard.</p>
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