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

First of all, while we obviously would have loved the casting vote to go a different way, I should put on the record, before Twitter takes off, that that was completely consistent with every precedent about the way the casting vote has been exercised. For all the arguments we have in this place, I think it's important that there not be an argument about that. I also indicate that in the debate we just had I referred to one of the references as being a 'self-referral', which was different to the others. I would now like the call to be able to move a motion on that basis.

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