House debates

Wednesday, 16 August 2006

Questions to the Speaker

Parliamentary Language

3:34 pm

Photo of Lindsay TannerLindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I again wish to ask you about your rulings on parliamentary language. Can you advise the House why it is unparliamentary to accuse a member of vilifying asylum seekers but it is not unparliamentary to accuse a member of being soft on drugs?

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