Bob McMullan (Fraser, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I have a question to you, too. It also goes to the question of consistency and follows from a question I asked earlier this week. Today again you allowed the Leader of the House to rise to speak on a point of order raised by another member—in this case the member for Grayndler. In my view that was a correct interpretation. But in the last sitting week you refused to allow me to rise to speak on a point of order raised by another member, saying that I had no right to do so. I ask you to once again examine the Hansard of the last sitting Thursday—and there were two occasions this week on which that has occurred—and provide to me some explanation of the rationale for the distinction between the treatment of the Leader of the House and my treatment.

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