Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion that the member for North Sydney be no longer heard, on which a division was called for and deferred in accordance with the standing order. No further debate is allowed.

A division having been called and the bells being rung—

Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and Local Government) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker—

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

If the Leader of the Nationals is seeking the call, I will allow him to come to the dispatch box and seek clarification.

Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and Local Government) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I will ask the question on the record then: why is this one being put to the vote when with the two previous ones—I think quite wisely—you decided not to do so? It is obvious that the—

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Nationals will resume his seat. I thank him for the question. The reason that those divisions are otiose is that the time allotted for the suspension of standing orders, being the 25 minutes, has well and truly expired, whereas this motion was—regrettably for me—based on a motion dissenting from a ruling from the chair, which does not have such a time limitation.

Question put:

That the member be no longer heard.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition be no longer heard, on which a division was called for and deferred on Friday, 22 February in accordance with the standing order. No further debate is allowed.

Question put:

That the member be no longer heard.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion that the Speaker’s ruling be dissented from, on which a division was called for and deferred in accordance with the standing order. No further debate is allowed.

Question put:

That the Speaker’s ruling be dissented from.