Arch Bevis (Brisbane, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Aviation and Transport Security) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I have a question to you that follows what appears to be the new precedent established yesterday and just a few moments ago. It goes to page 333 of the House of Representatives Practice, dealing with a debate on a motion of suspension, in which it is recorded:

The Chair has consistently ruled that Members may not use debate on a motion to suspend standing orders as a means of putting before the House, or canvassing, matters outside the question as to whether or not standing orders should be suspended.

Is it your intention to create another new precedent in dealing with that particular practice of the House? What advice do you propose to give to members who are subject to combined procedural motions and censures, such as the way the motion yesterday was moved? What facilities of the House are available to any member, either now or in the future, to defend themselves in a full debate in relation to the censure moved against them, given the precedent clearly established and referred to at page 333 of Practice?

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