Division Description Changes — Adjournment — 3rd Sep 2020

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Title

  • Adjournment
  • Motions - Adjournment - Speed things along

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Christian Porter</p>
  • <p>I move:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the House do now adjourn.</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2020-09-03.203.2) to *put the question*, which is parliamentary jargon for ending debate and voting on the question straight away.
  • <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p>
  • <p>The fact is that this has been a pointless exercise because&#8212;</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Christian Porter</p>
  • <p>I move:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the question be now put.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>
  • <p>The question is that the motion be put.</p>
  • <p>The question is that the House do now adjourn.</p>
  • <p>I'm going to table a document that expresses how the members for Melbourne and Clark would have voted on a range of motions. That's been presented to me by the Manager of Opposition Business.</p>
  • <p>House adjourned at 17:4 7</p>
  • <p></p>
  • <p>The DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Zimmerman) took the chair at 10:08, a division having been called in the House of Representatives.</p>