Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, I raise a point of order. On the count, when it is done by the tellers: I have had a look at the sheets where they were signed off last time, and the wrong count—the 78—was only signed off by the coalition tellers. I am asking: when counts are signed off, do the Liberals get to choose how many votes they believe they have—

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