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

Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I was not aware that you had finished dealing with the last matter. Page 502 of the House of Representatives Practice quotes Speaker Snedden as saying:

... if an accusation is made against members ... would be unparliamentary and offensive, it is in the interests of the comity of this House that it should not be made against all as it could not be made against one.

It then goes on to say:

This practice has been followed by succeeding Speakers.

In my view it should be followed by you and the minister for health should have to withdraw that remark.

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