Division Description Changes — Motions — Electoral Roll — 28th Oct 2021

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  • Motions — Electoral Roll
  • Motions - Electoral Roll - Stop Mr Albanese from speaking

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p>
  • <p>I seek leave to move the following motion:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the House:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(1) notes:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(a) voter fraud is a "vanishingly small" issue in Australia according to the AEC;</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Government Members</p>
  • <p>Government members interjecting&#8212;</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>
  • <p>Members on my right. The minister for education.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p>
  • <p>I continue:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(b) there were no&#8212;</p>
  • <p>Honourable members interjecting&#8212;</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>
  • <p>Order! The Leader of the opposition will just resume his seat. The minister for education will cease interjecting. Members on my left will cease interjecting. The Leader of the Opposition will begin again.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p>
  • <p>Thanks, Mr Speaker. I move:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the House:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(1) notes:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(a) voter fraud is a "vanishingly small" issue in Australia according to the AEC;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(b) there were no prosecutions for multiple voting at the last election;</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>
  • <p>The member for Mackellar is warned!</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p>
  • <p>I continue:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(c) on the eve of an election, the Morrison-Joyce Government is trying to ram through a bill to stop Australians voting;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(d) this is a desperate attempt to undermine our strong democracy and deny Australians their basic democratic rights;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(e) the Morrison-Joyce Government is trying to bring the politics and tactics of Trump's America into Australian democracy; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(f) the bill will mean Australians who vote in the next election will spend even more of their weekend waiting in long lines stretching around the block to vote; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(2) discharges Government business notice number 6 relating to the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Voter Integrity) Bill 2021 from the Notice Paper.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>
  • <p>Is leave granted?</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Peter Dutton</p>
  • <p>Leave is not granted.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p>
  • <p>I move:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition from moving the following motion immediately:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the House:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(1) notes:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(a) voter fraud is a "vanishingly small" issue in Australia according to the AEC;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(b) there were no prosecutions for multiple voting at the last election;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(c) on the eve of an election, the Morrison-Joyce Government is trying to ram through a bill to stop Australians voting;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(d) this is a desperate attempt to undermine our strong democracy and deny Australians their basic democratic rights;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(e) the Morrison-Joyce Government is trying to bring the politics and tactics of Trump's America into Australian democracy; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(f) the bill will mean Australians who vote in the next election will spend even more of their weekend waiting in long lines stretching around the block to vote; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(2) discharges Government business notice number 6 relating to the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Voter Integrity) Bill 2021 from the Notice Paper.</p>
  • <p>Our Prime Minister was the only world leader who didn't condemn those attacks on the Capitol Building.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Peter Dutton</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 Leader of the Opposition be no further heard.</p>
  • <p></p>
  • <p></p>
  • The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2021-10-28.18.4) to stop Grayndler MP [Anthony Albanese](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/grayndler/anthony_albanese) (Labor) from speaking any more in this debate. Motions like these are known as *gagging orders*.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *That the Member be no longer heard.*