Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I am quoting from the standing order upon which you made your ruling, Mr Speaker, and which the member for North Sydney has dissented from—and I recommend that standing order! This is the little book, and this one here, Joe, is the big book. And the little book, at standing order 81, says this under ‘Closure of question’:

After a question has been proposed from the Chair—

which you did, Mr Speaker—

a Member may move without notice, and whether or not any other Member is speaking—

Did you hear that? I will repeat it for the benefit of the member for North Sydney, who did not refer to it at all in his motion:

After a question has been proposed from the Chair, a Member may move without notice, and whether or not any other member is speaking—

That the question be now put.

The question must be put immediately and resolved without amendment or debate.

There is some ambiguity in some of these standing orders, but there is no ambiguity—

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