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

and reserved her right. It also is one of the principles of Practice and standing orders that the moment a seconder has concluded the question will be stated. That's part of the Practice. For the Leader of the House to be able to move the closure is for you to give the call, but immediately after the member for Griffith sat down, the first thing to happen was for the question to be stated, before the call was given to anyone.

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