Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I have a question for you concerning the conclusion of question time today. Extraordinarily, the Prime Minister chose not to vote in the censure motion against him that was moved by the Leader of the Opposition. Normally, it would be the case that question time would be called off by the Prime Minister; today that did not occur. Is it within standing orders for another minister to go to the dispatch box and call off question time, or should question time have been allowed to proceed given that the Prime Minister deemed it not worthy to vote on that censure motion?

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I think there have been a number of occasions when I have noted that ministers other than the Prime Minister have asked for further questions to be placed on the Notice Paper, so I do not think there was anything particularly unusual about today’s event.