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28 Nov 2024 · 1:15 PM · Division 18

Rearrangement

Procedural motion

A vote on how Parliament conducts its business, not on a law itself.

Official title
Business — Rearrangement

Procedural motion agreed to

Aye
54
No
8
Not recorded voting
14

“Not recorded voting” is everyone eligible who isn't recorded as Aye or No, for example absent, paired, or presiding. 1 voted differently from most of their party.

What was decided

No plain-English summary has been written for this division yet. The result above is read from the question recorded in the chamber, shown below.

Text recorded with this division

Penny Wong

by leave—I move:

That the order of the Senate agreed to earlier today, relating to the hours of meeting and routine of business, be varied as follows—

(1) At the end of paragraph (d), add:

(xxii) Migration Amendment Bill 2024

Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024

Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2024;

(2) After paragraph (e), insert:

(ea) once consideration of bills listed in paragraph (d) has concluded, the routine of business be:

(i) consideration of the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024;

(ii) tabling (only) of committee reports;

(eb) when called on, the question on the second reading of the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 be put immediately and the time allotted for all remaining stages be 60 minutes;

(3) omit paragraph (f), substitute:

(f) paragraphs (e) and (eb) operate as limitations of debate under standing order 142.

The motion is being circulated. It has the effect of including the bills that Senator Birmingham previously moved an amendment in relation to, which will commence at the conclusion of the debate on the bills in the motion we have just endorsed. I move:

That the question be now put.

Gerard Rennick

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Sue Lines

Leave is granted for one minute.

Gerard Rennick

I have to say that I'm shocked by the Liberal Party. Either you believe in guillotines or you don't. You can't pick and choose what sorts of guillotines you want. This online safety act requires greater scrutiny. The other really big thing that concerns me here are these RBA reforms, which aren't going to get the proper scrutiny that they deserve. I am shocked at the fact that an Australian Treasurer would want to give more powers to the RBA, which we know, through estimates, doesn't want to release the correspondence it has with the Bank for International Settlements. To give these guys more power and less accountability is a disgrace. Yesterday we saw a senator attacked here because she may have allegiance to another country. Let me tell you: the Bank for International Settlements has caused more wars and hardship than the Taliban have ever done, and it's an absolute disgrace that this bill is going to pass without proper scrutiny.

Matthew Canavan

I seek leave to make a short statement of no longer than one minute.

Leave not granted.

Sue Lines

The question is that the question be now put.

A division having been called and the bells being rung—

Matthew Canavan

Madam President, under the clear rules of this chamber, this should be a four-minute division. We've had a number of statements since the last division. Why is it not for four minutes?

Sue Lines

Senator Canavan, I have checked with the whips and they were comfortable with one minute. That is always my process. I check with the whips.

This is the question as put in the chamber, with the name of the member who spoke before the vote. It isn't a summary of the bill or motion.

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Votes by party

Both bars use the same scale: number of members.
Aye
54
No
8
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Australian Labor Party230
Liberal Party162
Australian Greens100
Liberal National Party11
National Party20
Australia's Voice01
Country Liberal Party10
Independent01
Jacqui Lambie Network01
Senate President10
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party01
United Australia Party01

How each member voted

Aye · 54

No · 8

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