Michael Hatton (Blaxland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I seek to assist you in your determination in relation to the argument put previously by the member for Aston. I simply want to point out that I was enforcing the gag motion that had been moved on that bill. I had previously indicated that there was an absolute five-minute limit for the parliamentary secretary to speak. He continued to speak, and I indicated that I was gagging him, as all other members had been gagged by that motion. Even if, Mr Speaker, you sought to agree with him that that should be scrubbed out of the record—

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