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representatives vote 2020-06-18#1
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Motions — Automotive Industry- Motions - Automotive Industry - Stop Kennedy MP from speaking
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<p class="speaker">Bob Katter</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/debates/?id=2020-06-18.3.2) to stop Kennedy MP [Bob Katter](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/kennedy/bob_katter) (Katter's Australia Party), which means it passed. Motions like these are known as *gagging motions*.
<p class="italic">(1) notes that:</p><p class="italic">(a) on the 17th February 2020 General Motors announced the retirement of the Holden Brand in Australia; and</p><p class="italic">(b) the Government's free trade agreements have destroyed our Australian manufacturing industry;</p><p class="italic">(2) acknowledges that the Government must build our way out of a COVID-19 economic depression with 'make money' projects; and</p><p class="italic">(3) calls on the Government to:</p><p class="italic">(a) support the reestablishment of an Australian car manufacturing industry with a majority Australian shareholding; and</p><p class="italic">(b) put relevant policies in place to ensure that all cars purchased by the Federal Government are made in Australia.</p><p>Leave not granted.</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Kennedy from moving the following motion:</p><p class="italic">That the House:</p><p class="italic">(1) notes that:</p><p class="italic">(a) on the 17th February 2020 General Motors announced the retirement of the Holden Brand in Australia; and</p><p class="italic">(b) the Government's free trade agreements have destroyed our Australian manufacturing industry;</p><p class="italic">(2) acknowledges that the Government must build our way out of a COVID-19 economic depression with 'make money' projects; and</p><p class="italic">(3) calls on the Government to:</p><p class="italic">(a) support the reestablishment of an Australian car manufacturing industry with a majority Australian shareholding; and</p><p class="italic">(b) put relevant policies in place to ensure that all cars purchased by the Federal Government are made in Australia.</p><p>I ask the government to allow me to say a few words on it. I appreciate my colleague from Hobart, who will be seconding this motion.</p> <p class="speaker">Alan Tudge</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 member for Kennedy be no further heard.</p>
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