David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The Manager of Opposition Business has raised an important matter, and I thank her for her question. I would make a number of comments. First of all, the motion that was moved yesterday was a suspension of standing orders and it was also a substantive motion, and the House voted on it. Could I also draw to the honourable member’s attention that it has been reasonably frequent for the House to agree in more recent times to a motion to suspend standing orders for a purpose contained within such a motion.

Having anticipated that this question might come, I might give a couple of examples. For example, yesterday there was a motion to vary the time of questions without notice for today. There have been other ones—

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