Mr KEENAN (Stirling) (12:18): I second the motion of the member for Sturt, and if the Labor Party had nothing to hide it would ask the member for Dobell to come in and account for his actions to this parliament. Mr Albanese: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: with regard to the motion that has been moved and now seconded before the chair, in the past motions have been ruled out of order because they were overly lengthy. This is a motion that took the mover some four minutes to read into Hansard. Honourable members interjecting— Mr Albanese: The member for Sturt concedes that he is slow, but it is not the case that the standing orders should be subverted by an overly long motion. I ask you, Mr Speaker, to rule it out of order. The SPEAKER: Order! I stand by the decision of the person occupying the chair at the time to allow this suspension motion to proceed. It is of the A to Z that the Minister for Defence knows much about and the compromise there is that it takes four minutes to read and that is four minutes of a speech. I understand that the Leader of the House will have some grievance about the fact that he cannot move that the member be no longer heard until after that point, but I think that that is the accommodation. I agree with him that it would assist the House if motions were truncated, but on this occasion we have got this far. Mr ALBANESE: I move: That the member be no longer heard. Question put. The House divided. [12:25] (The Speaker—Mr Harry Jenkins) Question negatived. The SPEAKER: The member's time has expired. The time allotted for the debate has expired. Whilst not by way of a point of order, I will explain that the problem is that the motion was never put to the House.