Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! It being 9 pm, I propose the question:

That the House do now adjourn.

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

I require that the question be put without debate.

The House divided. [21:08]

(The Speaker—Hon. Bronwyn Bishop)

Question negatived.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

(In division) Madam Speaker, I raise a point of order. The fact is that the government did not know that they were voting against this resolution. They sat on that side of the chamber.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

They have now moved.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You called a one-minute division when it is appropriate when people are swapping sides that there be a four-minute division. I ask you, to stop people being excluded from this vote, to allow a recommitment of this division.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have taken advice. Everybody was present in the chamber. It was merely a question of moving sides. I have just taken advice and have ruled that way.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, on the point of order: with respect, the information you have just been provided with is categorically false. The videos will reveal that people re-entered the chamber during that time. I respect that in good faith you have advised the House that everybody was in the chamber—that was not the case.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In that case, there is no business that has transpired. Just to make it simple we will ring the bells for one more minute. I will not have it said that the advice I received was false, but I will say that the bells will ring for one more minute just to resolve any difficulty.