House debates Prime Minister
Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training
1:39 pm
I ask leave of the House to move the following motion: that the Prime Minister be invited to remain in the House to make a prime ministerial statement concerning his bungled mismanagement of the deposit guarantee policy of the government amidst the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Leave not granted.
I move:
That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Sturt from moving that the Prime Minister be invited to remain in the House—
or return to the House, given that he has now scurried out of it—
to make a Prime Ministerial statement concerning his bungled mismanagement—
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training
of the deposit guarantee—
Harry Jenkins Speaker
The member for Sturt will resume his seat! The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
Government Member:
He’s been warned!
Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Mr Speaker, on a point of order: the member for Sturt cannot begin his speech midway through moving his resolution.
Opposition Members:
Opposition members—It’s a motion!
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training
Mr Pyne interjecting
Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
We will check when it is put in writing. We will check if what you said is what is there in writing.
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training
Mr Pyne interjecting
Martin Ferguson Batman, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Resources and Energy
He’s been warned twice, Mr Speaker. You haven’t been in here.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
If the minister wants his first warning, I am aware that he has been warned twice. I was the first to warn him, and that sort of behaviour is not assisting the chair. The member for Sturt, who gets heaps of generosity, really needs to learn to not make those types of remarks. With respect to the point of order that was made by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, I will seek the assistance of the member for Sturt as to whether the words that he added when reading out his motion actually form part of the motion, because if they do it might jeopardise the motion.
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training
I can inform the Speaker that they do not form part of the motion, and I am prepared to read the motion again.
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I move:
That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Sturt from moving that the Prime Minister be invited to remain in the House to make a Prime Ministerial statement concerning his bungled mismanagement of the deposit guarantee policy of the Government amidst the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression.
The Prime Minister—
Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
1:42 pm
I move:
That the member be no longer heard.
Question put.
Warren Truss Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals
1:51 pm
I second the motion. The government is—
Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
I move:
That the member be no longer heard.
Question put.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
The question now is that the motion for the suspension of standing orders moved by the member for Sturt be agreed to.
Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House
1:54 pm
I table a letter of unreserved apology from the federal member for Canning to the Governor of the Reserve Bank. The federal member for Canning can apologise and recognise when he has done wrong against an independent financial regulator, something that the Leader of the Opposition does not have the humility or foresight to do.
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training
1:55 pm
I move:
That the member be no longer heard.
Question put.
Original question put:
That the motion (Mr Pyne’s) be agreed to.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
Order! It being past 2 pm, the proceedings are interrupted in accordance with standing order 97.