Bruce Scott (Maranoa, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

No, it is not an automatic adjournment, as I understand it. There was not an automatic adjournment, but I am advised that there was some agreement that there would be an adjournment—but it is not an automatic adjournment. That was in the hands of the whips, not in the hands of the Speaker in this regard. I call the member for Hume, who I have given the call to.

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