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Title

  • Motions Pensions and Benefits
  • Motions - Pensions and Benefits - Don't let a vote happen

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Ross Vasta</p>
  • <p>In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion to suspend standing orders moved earlier today by the honourable member for Maribyrnong on which a division was called for and deferred in accordance with the standing order. No further debate is allowed.</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of *disagreeing* with a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2021-06-15.5.2) introduced by Maribyrnong MP [Bill Shorten](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/maribyrnong/bill_shorten) (Labor), which means it failed. The motion was to suspend the usual procedural rules - known as [standing orders](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/parliament-at-work/standing-orders/) - in order to let another vote take place.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Maribyrnong from moving the following motion immediately—That the House:*
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  • > *(1) notes the:*
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  • >> *(a) Morrison Government recently settled the Robodebt class action in the Federal Court of Australia for $1.9 billion; and*
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  • >> *(b) Court judgment declared Robodebt was:*
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  • >>> *(i) a "shameful chapter" and a "massive failure of public administration";*
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  • >>> *(ii) the cause of "heart-wrenching" financial hardship, anxiety and distress, including suicidal ideation and in some cases suicide;*
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  • >>> *(iii) a "huge waste of public money"; and*
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  • >>> *(iv) unlawful and inaccurate, something that "should have been obvious" to the Government; and*
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  • > *(2) calls on the Morrison Government to:*
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  • >> *(a) explain to the House why nobody has been held accountable for Robodebt, the biggest compliance failure on record by an Australian Government;*
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  • >> *(b) promptly provide all information requested by the Senate but withheld on the basis of a public interest immunity claim while the Robodebt class action was underway; and*
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  • >> *(c) immediately establish a Robodebt Royal Commission*
  • <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>
  • <p>The question is that the motion for the suspension of standing orders be disagreed to.</p>