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

I presume, any moment, the doors will lock. The only way members have of knowing what they are voting on is by virtue of what the minister read out. The minister did not read out the whole motion. I have a written copy of the motion from the clerks. We are deciding a question now that has not in any way been said out loud to the parliament. If I may, I've already put the objections to the whole process tonight about the fact that we still don't have a copy of the bill that we're about to vote on, but—

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