Editing Division bell (section)

=== Federal Parliament ===
In both the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] and the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]], the division bell is normally rung for four minutes, unless successive divisions are taken with no debate between, in which case they ring for one minute only. After this period has elapsed, the doors to the chamber are locked, and the vote takes place. The duration of the bell was increased to four minutes following the move to [[Parliament House, Canberra|Parliament House]] in 1988, and is measured by in the House of Representatives using a [[Hourglass|sandglass]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/House_of_Representatives/Powers_practice_and_procedure/Practice7/HTML/Chapter8/Divisions|title=Chapter 8: Divisions|website=Parliament of Australia|access-date=17 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/Odgers_Australian_Senate_Practice/Chapter_11|title=CHAPTER 11 {{!}} Voting and Divisions|website=Parliament of Australia|access-date=17 February 2019}}</ref> On one occasion, a young [[Paul Keating]] was furiously censured by his party’s whip for missing a division. Keating made the excuse that he could not hear the division bell in his office, when in fact he had simply turned it down.