House debates Leader of the Opposition
Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders
Daryl Melham Banks, Australian Labor Party
12:36 pm
Mr Deputy Speaker, I raise a point of order in relation to the purported dissent from your ruling. As I understand it, having been in this place for 18½ years and on the Procedure Committee, there actually needs to be a ruling before a dissent motion can be put. In this instance the procedure that is being adopted is the procedure since Federation, which is that a motion is read and at the completion of the motion being read and placed before the House it can then be circulated. What the opposition are asking for is unprecedented and in my view disruptive.
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