Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Dickson moving immediately—That the Minister for Health and Ageing:

(1)

introduce legislation to validate the collection of additional excise on premixed ready to drink alcoholic beverages; and

(2)

include in that legislation a provision to quarantine the funds for measures to address binge drinking.

This government’s action is shameful in allowing this money to be returned—

Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Housing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the member be no longer heard.

Question put.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Is the motion seconded?

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I second the motion. Alcohol health services are more important than distillers’ profits, Mr Speaker—

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker—

Honourable Members:

Honourable members interjecting—

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the House has the call. The member for Sturt will resume his seat.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I think I might let him go for a little bit longer! Keep going!

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Pyne interjecting

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Sturt will resume his seat! The Leader of the House has the call.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the member be no longer heard.

A division having been called and the bells having been rung—

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I call the member for North Sydney.

Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I could not hear the member for Sturt because his microphone wasn’t on. I’m not sure—

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

He technically had had the call withdrawn by me asking him to sit down—but it was a valiant effort.

Question put.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question now is that the motion moved by the member for Dickson be agreed to.

Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This is the utmost hypocrisy. I am speaking against this motion because the member for Dickson is coming in here as an apologist for the distillers. His—

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the question be now put.

Question put.

Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

One hundred million dollars of hush money so that the distillers will get billions of—

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The minister will resume her seat.

Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I was standing at the dispatch box first and I sought your call.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the member for North Sydney want the call now or not?

Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, I do, Mr Speaker.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In fairness, I gave the minister the call because she was continuing in the debate; then you got the call.

Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. We want to give the money—

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for North Sydney will resume his seat and he is warned because that was not an opportunity for him to rise. What was the point of order? The minister has the call.

Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Three hundred million dollars, so billions of dollars—

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the member be no longer heard.

Question put.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

They want to—

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The minister’s time has expired. The question is that the motion be agreed to.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

reopen a tax loophole for binge drinking. That is what those opposite want to do. They want to raid the budget—

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the House will resume his seat.

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The time for the debate has expired and therefore the motion has to be put.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! It being 9.27 am, the time allotted for the debate has expired.

Question put:

That the motion (Mr Dutton’s) be agreed to.