Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I will just have to have a copy of the motion so I can make sure about the standing orders if it is the same. For the benefit of the House, the same motion cannot be debated one after the other. It has to be a new motion.

I understand what the member for Kennedy is trying to do here in trying have his say on this important issue. Under the standing orders, the way that it would have to work would be a specific separate motion not on the same topic or the same issue. It would have to be a slightly different or a quite different motion; otherwise, we would be here all day just dealing with the same issue over and over again and that would be disruptive to the House. So unless there is a more substantive motion dealing with the issue in broader terms or with the wider context, I will have to rule this motion out of order.

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