Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

One issue: I'm trying to get a copy of the earlier resolution which I've now got in front of me. Both clauses (a) and (b) are governed by what comes at the start, which is that so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent. And so what that resolution does is any standing order which gets in the way of clause (a), which gets in the way of that process being followed, is therefore suspended. But it does not prevent the House from resolving in different ways to deal with that debate, to discuss the debate, to interpret that debate and then to call on someone to use clause (b). If for example the House had resolved—

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