Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, I rise to speak against the dissent motion and in favour of your ruling. In doing so can I say, Mr Deputy Speaker, it is apparent from the quality of the debate that this dissent motion is not actually about your ruling; it is about buying time for the opposition and the Liberal Party to work out how they want to vote on the motion I have moved. They are trying to characterise that motion as unimportant, but it calls on them to do a very important thing. The reason this dissent motion has been moved is to prevent them for some time from having to come to this point of decision.

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