Page 5009 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 26 October 2011

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MR SPEAKER: Are you taking a point of order?

Mr Seselja: I am taking a point of order. I am asking for clarification. Is your ruling that Dr Bourke is able to do that on a one-off basis, but members of the opposition and other members will be ruled completely out of order if they engage in the same sort of invective that Dr Bourke did in his preamble?

MR SPEAKER: Mr Seselja—

Mr Hargreaves: On the point of order, Mr Speaker, Mr Seselja was just talking about the invective that came across the chamber. I presume he was referring to Dr Bourke’s question. The most pejorative term Dr Bourke used was “Chicken Little”. I am not aware that that is unparliamentary, and it is about a group and not a person.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Hargreaves.

Mr Hargreaves: I don’t think you’re listening, sir.

MR SPEAKER: I am listening to you.

Mr Hargreaves: Sir, I do not think you are listening.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, you are warned for inappropriate reflection on the chair.

Mr Hargreaves: All right; I take it. Thank you.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Seselja, on your point of order—

Mr Hargreaves interjecting—

Mr Coe: On a point of order, can I please ask Mr Hargreaves to withdraw what he just said?

MR SPEAKER: Which was? I am sorry, I was concentrating on something else.

Mr Coe: It was definitely unparliamentary and I do not want to repeat it.

Members interjecting—

MR SPEAKER: Thank you, members. Order! Mr Coe, I am afraid I actually did not hear it because I was concentrating on something else.

Mr Hargreaves: Mr Speaker, I am quite happy to indicate to Mr Coe, who cannot clearly remember what it was I said, what I actually did say. I said, “Then you can now march one of those.” That was not unparliamentary. It was not a reflection on the chair; it was a comment across the chamber.


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