Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, I move:

That the Deputy Speaker’s ruling be dissented from.

I will speak to this motion now, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is unprecedented for a government to move such a motion. Clearly, the Labor Party have not worked out that they actually are in government. They are moving this sort of spurious motion to try to get television time tonight. The Leader of the House rang me yesterday and said, ‘We want to get through our bills tomorrow. Can you cut short your speakers list so that we can get through our bills?’ and then the government moved an absurd motion like this.

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