Harry Jenkins (Scullin, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Before proceeding with business, and without wishing to embarrass the Clerk of the Committee, the chair wishes to indicate that by the wonder and means of information technology, the Assistant Votes Officer, who is cocooned somewhere in the bowels of this building, has advised the Chair that the member for Chisholm spoke with leave of the committee as the original proposer of the motion and has not closed the debate. The Chair has acted in the belief, confidently, that the Main Committee had no objection to such course of action.

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