Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I'm not going to call the seconder. We're getting into a very technical area. The same page of Practicethat I read from earlier states:

A private Member—

who is not a minister—

cannot move to vary the order of government business in the House—

that's what I mean—

nor can he or she move an amendment to a postponement motion—

It would have that effect, so I need to rule that motion out of order.

Mr Dutton interjecting—

I'm ruling that motion out of order, unless the Minister for Home Affairs wants me to rule it in order. I'm ruling the motion out of order; it can't be moved. The member for Hindmarsh.

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