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

Mr Speaker, I have a question for you in terms of the administration of the House. With respect to the use of the casting vote—given that we've just had a vote where the margin was one and given that at the very end of last week a new member joined us—can you confirm that when a vote is tied then at the second reading the casting vote would go with the government to allow further debate, but that at the third reading, a tied vote would, in fact, result in the defeat of the bill?

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