Petition · past parliament
Make "Filibustering" an offence. Grant the house stronger powers of cloture.
Rejected
20 signatures
What the petition asks
On December 16th, anti feminist MP philip Davies attemped to filibuster the Domestic Violence bill. On this occasion the bill was passed to the next stage, but Mr Davies has successfully filibustered bills on multiple other important social issues, often to further selfish personal interests.
Filibustering is not uncommon during back bench bill presentation due to lower attendances making a cloture motion difficult to attain.
Allowing important social issues to be swept under the carpet through filibustering undermines the core principles of pur representative democracy and needs to be stopped.
Cloture motions should be able to be granted by a percentage of members in attendance, rather than by a fixed number of 100 members. Or should be implemented by the speaker when necessary.
Allowing important social issues to be swept under the carpet through filibustering undermines the core principles of pur representative democracy and needs to be stopped.
Cloture motions should be able to be granted by a percentage of members in attendance, rather than by a fixed number of 100 members. Or should be implemented by the speaker when necessary.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 16 Dec 2016 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 20 Dec 2016 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
20
Status
Rejected
Rejected
20 Dec 2016
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.