Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as to allow the member for Lyne to address the House to provide valedictory remarks about his service to this House.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am loath to put the member for Lyne in this situation. If you want the honest truth, and I understand the intention of the member for Cook, I am loath to use a member's valedictory in this way. But you have put the motion.

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

I move the original question. I move:

That the question be put.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I had understood that the member for Cook might have been seeking another option and that is why I gave him the call. I had thought he had intended to move quickly to the member for Lyne, but I have misread that. The member for Cook has the call.

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This motion is put forward reluctantly because, as the Prime Minister said—

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

Speaker—

Mr Dutton interjecting—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Dickson will not continue with that line. The Deputy Prime Minister has the call.

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

My point of order is this, Speaker: the next business had been called on by you. There was an item already before the chair, and I moved that that question be put.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The clerk had called on the item of business. I had given the member for Cook the call as I thought he was going to propose something else. I did not think he would then eat into 10 minutes time. I am going to put the question. The question is that the question be put.

Honourable members interjecting—

The suspension motion should relate to the motion before the chair. It does not. The member for Menzies on a point of order.

Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Families, Housing and Human Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Speaker, you have accepted a motion from the member for Cook.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have not!

Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Families, Housing and Human Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You have accepted that motion; he started to speak to it. Everybody in this place knows he has started to speak to it, Speaker.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Menzies will resume his seat. I gave the member for Cook the call as I thought he would be doing another—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Seniors) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does it matter?

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, it does actually, member for Mackellar. The suspension must relate to the matter before the chair. As it does not, I am calling on the business of the day. The question is that the question be put.

The question now is that this bill, as amended, be agreed to.