House of Representatives

Thursday, 1 December 2016 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 27
Honourable members interjecting—
The SPEAKER: I am putting the question again. The original—
Mr Burke: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: you gave the division—you called the division. You announced
it. You asked, 'All those against?' Not one member of the House voted no.
The SPEAKER: No.
Mr Burke: You paused and then called it in favour of the ayes, and not one member of the House objected to
that call. That does not constitute confusion.
The SPEAKER: I am going to address this matter. Where there is confusion my intention is to put the
question again. We have had this happen before. The Manager of Opposition Business has made his point. I did
not restate the entire question. I did when the bells rang, but I did not restate the question.
Mr Snowdon interjecting—
The SPEAKER: The member for Lingiari is not going to sigh and moan in the chamber. He can do it in his
office. Let me warn the member for Lingiari now: if he is going to sigh and moan when I am addressing the
House he might as well just go back to his office, because I will cause more of it. I did not state the full question.
Manager of Opposition Business, you have made your point, but I did not state the full question. You can spend a
lot of time on this, and I appreciate you might want to—
Mr Burke: Yep!
The SPEAKER: I think that is a very apt confession at Christmas time. I am now going to state the
amendment and what the amendment was. I am going to then call and see whether a division is required. The
original question was that the requested amendments be not made. To this, the honourable member for Adelaide
has moved as an amendment:
That all the words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:
"the House calls on the Government to recommend an appropriation from the Governor-General consistent with the request
from the Senate"
The question is that the amendment moved by the member for Adelaide be agreed to.
Division required. [11.28]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)
Albanese, AN
Bandt, AP
Bowen, CE
Burke, AS
Butler, MC
Byrne, AM
Champion, ND
Claydon, SC
Conroy, PM
Dick, MD
Elliot, MJ
Feeney, D
Freelander, MR
Giles, AJ
Hammond, TJ
Hayes, CP
Husar, E
Jones, SP
Kelly, MJ
Khalil, P
King, MMH
Leigh, AK
Marles, RD
McGowan, C
Mitchell, RG
O'Connor, BPJ
O'Toole, C
Perrett, GD (teller)
Ayes ...................... 72
Noes ...................... 74
Majority ................. 2
AYES
Aly, A
Bird, SL
Brodtmann, G
Burney, LJ
Butler, TM
Chalmers, JE
Chesters, LM
Collins, JM
Danby, M
Dreyfus, MA
Ellis, KM
Fitzgibbon, JA
Georganas, S
Gosling, LJ
Hart, RA
Hill, JC
Husic, EN
Keay, JT
Keogh, MJ
King, CF
Lamb, S
Macklin, JL
McBride, EM
Mitchell, BK
Neumann, SK
O'Neil, CE
Owens, JA
Plibersek, TJ
CHAMBER