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

I refer the Leader of the House, and you, Deputy Speaker Vasta, to the ruling that was made in that chair at 7.30 tonight. In that chair at 7.30 tonight, the chair had the choice to say this suspension that had been carried by the House meant that only ministers could move motions, or it was, in the words of the Leader of the House himself, 'permissive' as a resolution—that it then simply said the bill is allowed to go through all its different stages, but motions are allowed to be moved. If that were not the case, we wouldn't have been able to negate the adjournment, because the adjournment was put to us without being moved by a minister. Keep up, son! Keep up!

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