Page 4019 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 20 September 2011
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MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: I said order! Resume your seats. This is not a matter to be messed with. I will not have it. The next time I have to speak, someone is going to get named—not warned, named—and check your standing orders if you do not think I can do it. Now, Mr—
Mrs Dunne: Mr Assistant Speaker—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Do you want to make a comment?
Mrs Dunne: I think I have finished. I was about to say that I look forward to standing orders being suspended.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Seselja. That sort of backhand comment will not be tolerated again, Mrs Dunne.
Mrs Dunne: Sorry, could I say—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: That was backhanded. You know it was and I know it was. Now—
Mrs Dunne: Mr—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Please resume your seat.
Mrs Dunne: I was finishing my speech.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Seselja, do you wish to speak on the motion?
Mr Seselja: I do, Mr Assistant Speaker.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Okay, you have the floor.
Mrs Dunne: I was finishing my speech.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Just test me.
Mrs Dunne: I am going to raise that with you. That is just pathetic.
MR SESELJA (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (11.11): It is unfortunate that Mr Corbell is engaging in a hissy fit on this issue. It is probably not surprising—the particular issue on which he is engaging in a hissy fit—so let us deal with the two issues. The first is that we are talking about the government office accommodation strategy, the government’s plan to spend $430 million of taxpayers’ money on a building that we do not need. Mr Smyth should be entitled, as a member of that committee, to speak.
In the ordinary course it would have been a short speech. It would have taken up less time, presumably, than we have spent debating the suspension of standing orders. Often we give leave without notice—not just for ministerial statements when we are
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