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representatives vote 2023-11-15#2
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Motions — National Security- Motions - National Security - Let another vote happen
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<p class="speaker">Peter Dutton</p><p>I seek leave to move the following motion:</p>-
- The majority voted against a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2023-11-15.87.2) to suspend the usual procedural rules - known as standing orders - in order to let another vote take place. This means that other vote won't happen.
- ### Motion text
- > *That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition from moving the following motion immediately—*
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- > *That the House:*
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- > *(1) expresses its grave concern at the vicious rise of antisemitic vilification in our country, and the breakdown in social cohesion occurring in our communities;*
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- > *(2) expresses its grave concern that social disharmony has reached dangerous levels, and that community safety is now at significant risk;*
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- > *(3) condemns the Prime Minister's failure to show the strong leadership required to overcome divisions within his own caucus, to stamp out antisemitism and bring our country together;*
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- > *(4) expresses its concern that community safety in this country has been further threatened by the release of more than 80 hardcore criminals from immigration detention into the Australian community;*
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- > *(5) expresses its deep concern that this cohort includes individuals who have committed acts of child rape, murder, sexual assault, and other violent crimes;*
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- > *(6) condemns the Government for catastrophically and demonstrably failing to prepare contingencies for High Court proceedings where it fully aware of the risks;*
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- > *(7) condemns the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs for consequently undertaking an unprecedented and shocking mass release of dangerous criminal non-citizens into the Australian community; and*
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- > *(8) therefore calls on the Prime Minister to:*
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- >> *(a) understand that his priority must be the protection of the Australian community at home;*
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- >> *(b) cancel his plans to travel to the United States;*
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- >> *(c) urgently convene a National Cabinet meeting to formulate a strong and coherent response to combat the rise of antisemitism, repair social cohesion and protect community safety;*
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- > *(d) urgently bring forward any legislation necessary to neutralise the threat posed by the hardcore criminals his Government has released into the Australian Community; and*
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- > *(e) amend the days and hours of sitting to facilitate the passage of such legislation prior to the rising of the Parliament this week.*
<p class="italic">That the House:</p><p class="italic">(1) expresses its grave concern at the vicious rise of antisemitic vilification in our country, and the breakdown in social cohesion occurring in our communities;</p><p class="italic">(2) expresses its grave concern that social disharmony has reached dangerous levels, and that community safety is now at significant risk;</p><p class="italic">(3) condemns the Prime Minister's failure to show the strong leadership required to overcome divisions within his own caucus, to stamp out antisemitism and bring our country together;</p><p class="italic">(4) expresses its concern that community safety in this country has been further threatened by the release of more than 80 hardcore criminals from immigration detention into the Australian community;</p><p class="italic">(5) expresses its deep concern that this cohort includes individuals who have committed acts of child rape, murder, sexual assault, and other violent crimes;</p><p class="italic">(6) condemns the Government for catastrophically and demonstrably failing to prepare contingencies for High Court proceedings where it fully aware of the risks;</p><p class="italic">(7) condemns the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs for consequently undertaking an unprecedented and shocking mass release of dangerous criminal non-citizens into the Australian community; and</p><p class="italic">(8) therefore calls on the Prime Minister to:</p><p class="italic">(a) understand that his priority must be the protection of the Australian community at home;</p><p class="italic">(b) cancel his plans to travel to the United States;</p><p class="italic">(c) urgently convene a National Cabinet meeting to formulate a strong and coherent response to combat the rise of antisemitism, repair social cohesion and protect community safety;</p><p class="italic">(d) urgently bring forward any legislation necessary to neutralise the threat posed by the hardcore criminals his Government has released into the Australian Community; and</p><p class="italic">(e) amend the days and hours of sitting to facilitate the passage of such legislation prior to the rising of the Parliament this week.</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>The Attorney-General will cease interjecting. Is leave granted?</p> <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p><p>On a point of order, as I understand it, the Leader of the Opposition is asking for leave to move a question relating to the serious issue of a rise of antisemitism, somehow linking that to a decision of the High Court that was made last week, linking those issues—</p><p>Honourable members interjecting—</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>Order! The Prime Minister is seeking clarification.</p> <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p><p>I do not have a copy of the motion, Mr Speaker.</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>The first thing we'll do, Prime Minister, is that you can complete your point of order.</p> <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p><p>I was seeking clarification of the Leader of the Opposition's trying to mix the issue of social cohesion, antisemitism and a decision of the High Court relating to—</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>Just pause a moment, Leader of the Opposition. The Prime Minister can come to his point of order. I can then ask whether the leave is granted. But I need to know what he's asking at the moment.</p> <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p><p>I am seeking clarification here. I do not have a copy of the resolution. I would find it extraordinary if this Leader of the Opposition was overreaching so much that he is linking antisemitism with the decision of the High Court.</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>Resume your seat. Thank you, Prime Minister. Is leave granted? We'll just go through this.</p> <p class="speaker">Tony Burke</p><p>I don't have it.</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>Is there a copy of the—</p><p>An honourable member interjecting—</p><p>Order! To assist the House, if a copy can be provided to the—</p> <p class="speaker">Peter Dutton</p><p>Mr Speaker, if I have the call, I'm happy to answer.</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>The member for Bruce! The Leader of the Opposition is seeking leave to move the motion. The way this will work is that, if the copy could be provided to the Leader of the House, the decision can be made on that question.</p> <p class="speaker">Peter Dutton</p><p>Mr Speaker, to assist you and to assist the House, I'm happy to provide a copy of the motion, but I'd appreciate from you an understanding of the precedent for such an act to take place. I have read out word for word the motion that I have put before the House. Under the standing orders, the longstanding standard practice of this House, practised by the Prime Minister when he was the Leader of the Opposition and a shadow minister in opposition, is that I can move a motion, which is what I've done. I have read verbatim what it is I'm proposing by way of this motion. The motion is seconded. The standing orders provide for you, Mr Speaker, as you're well aware, to ask whether leave is granted. That's the question before the House, and that is the question the Prime Minister refuses to answer. Has he got the guts to have the conversation or not?</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>The Leader of the Opposition will resume his seat. We'll just do this in a methodical way. On the point of order, the copy has now been presented to the Leader of the House. On the point of order—the Prime Minister, and then we'll move through the normal processes.</p> <p class="speaker">Anthony Albanese</p><p>On the point of order, it is actually the practical practice of the House that if a motion such as this is a simple motion it can be read out by leave. If there is, though, any genuine attempt by an opposition to have a government accept a leave motion, it is given to the government and then negotiated through how many speakers a side. So, on that basis, leave is certainly not granted for a motion that links antisemitism with the decision of the High Court.</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>Leave is not granted. The Leader of the Opposition has the call.</p> <p class="speaker">Peter Dutton</p><p>I've given the copy to the Clerk for a photocopy for the Prime Minister. To the point of order, though, to be very clear, there is no link between the rise of antisemitism and the High Court case. Let me be very clear about that. This concocted outrage by the Prime Minister demonstrates his weak leadership and his inability to debate a reasonable motion in this parliament.</p><p>Government members interjecting—</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>Order! Members on my right will cease interjecting. The member for Hasluck is warned. Leave has not been granted. There was far too much noise for anyone to hear anything. Copies of the motion have been circulated. I'm now granting the Leader of the Opposition the call to move as he sees fit.</p> <p class="speaker">Peter Dutton</p><p>Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I move:</p><p class="italic">That so much of the standing and sessional 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) expresses its grave concern at the vicious rise of antisemitic vilification in our country, and the breakdown in social cohesion occurring in our communities;</p><p class="italic">(2) expresses its grave concern that social disharmony has reached dangerous levels, and that community safety is now at significant risk;</p><p class="italic">(3) condemns the Prime Minister's failure to show the strong leadership required to overcome divisions within his own caucus, to stamp out antisemitism and bring our country together;</p><p class="italic">(4) expresses its concern that community safety in this country has been further threatened by the release of more than 80 hardcore criminals from immigration detention into the Australian community;</p><p class="italic">(5) expresses its deep concern that this cohort includes individuals who have committed acts of child rape, murder, sexual assault, and other violent crimes;</p><p class="italic">(6) condemns the Government for catastrophically and demonstrably failing to prepare contingencies for High Court proceedings where it fully aware of the risks;</p><p class="italic">(7) condemns the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs for consequently undertaking an unprecedented and shocking mass release of dangerous criminal non-citizens into the Australian community; and</p><p class="italic">(8) therefore calls on the Prime Minister to:</p><p class="italic">(a) understand that his priority must be the protection of the Australian community at home;</p><p class="italic">(b) cancel his plans to travel to the United States;</p><p class="italic">(c) urgently convene a National Cabinet meeting to formulate a strong and coherent response to combat the rise of antisemitism, repair social cohesion and protect community safety;</p><p class="italic">(d) urgently bring forward any legislation necessary to neutralise the threat posed by the hardcore criminals his Government has released into the Australian Community; and</p><p class="italic">(e) amend the days and hours of sitting to facilitate the passage of such legislation prior to the rising of the Parliament this week.</p><p>The reality is that this Prime Minister has been missing in action—missing in action when the Australian people need him most. The Australian Prime Minister has one of the most serious charges in this country: that is to take care of the Australian people; to protect and to defend them; to make sure that, where threats exist, the Prime Minister utilises the powers at his disposal to deal with those threats, to neutralise them, and to keep our country and our people safe. And he fails at the first hurdle.</p><p>The dreadful attacks that we saw on 7 October in Israel resulted in terrorists—a listed terrorist organisation here in our country and in other countries in the West and other parts of the developed world, Hamas—going in and massacring people of Jewish faith. It was a disgraceful act and rightly condemned by both sides of politics. It has given rise to a discussion here in this country, in the United States and elsewhere in the world, and it has seen a significant rise in antisemitic behaviour.</p><p>I commend those members, one of them that I can identify, on the opposite side, for having the guts to stand up and to speak strongly in favour of the Jewish community and against those who perform provocative acts, calling Jews names that shouldn't be repeated anywhere, but saying: 'Eff the Jews,' and, 'Gas the Jews.' And this Prime Minister had a solemn duty—</p> <p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>The Attorney-General will cease interjecting.</p> <p class='motion-notice motion-notice-truncated'>Long debate text truncated.</p>-
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