Kelvin Thomson (Wills, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Public Accountability and Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I heard your ruling and followed it. The parliamentary secretary was simply endeavouring to prevent me from saying things this parliament needs to hear and ought to be discussing. The member for Gwydir went on the ABC’s Insiders program and said:

I want to make it absolutely plain that the three senior colleagues of mine who are in the firing line at the moment over this, none of them in any way spoke to me …

But we discovered on 27 February this year that the member for Gwydir had a discussion with senior colleagues early last year about AWB, Volcker and the oil for food program. We also discovered that the member for Gwydir—

10000 SPEAKER, TheThe SPEAKER—I think the member for Wills should be using a substantive motion on this point. I ask the member for Wills to resume his seat.

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