Page 4593 - Week 14 - Thursday, 24 November 2005
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Mr Corbell: Mr Speaker, the noes have it.
MR SPEAKER: A division called for; ring the bells.
A call of the Assembly having commenced—
Mr Seselja: On what? Are you going back to the one you have already resolved?
MR SPEAKER: I will tell you on what, Mr Seselja—on the question that the question be put. Understood?
Mr Seselja: You have already resolved it, Mr Speaker.
Mrs Burke: I have a point of order, Mr Speaker.
Mr Seselja: It was resolved—he said it.
Mrs Burke: You have already done that and we have voted on that.
MR SPEAKER: By way of explanation, it is hard to have a division unless I have declared the vote. I declared the vote and a division was called for. That is what happens.
Mrs Burke: But you did, sir.
Mr Seselja: No. That is not the procedure. Do you know how the procedure goes? You say, “I think the ayes have it; the ayes have it.”
MR SPEAKER: All members are present. Resume your seat!
Mr Stanhope: We said that the noes have it.
Mr Seselja: That was after he had resolved it. He has now changed, under pressure. Are you going to act as a Speaker or are you just going to do what they tell you to do?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Lock the doors.
Mr Corbell: It says on the blue:
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Mr Seselja: The vote was put and resolved. Are you rescinding the vote now?
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Seselja: This is what happens in committees when they get it wrong.
MR SPEAKER: Order! People will be excluded from the vote if they continue to persist—
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