Carmen Lawrence (Fremantle, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, in the gallery today there were two very prominent citizens not of this country—one a longstanding but former member of the Canadian parliament, a Mr David Kilgour, a former minister indeed, and one a Mr Edward McMillan-Scott, the Vice-President of the European parliament. Since you seemed not to be recognising them, I drew their presence to your attention. Unfortunately, you did not see fit to pay them the credit that is normally given to such visitors. In that light, may I ask you why you did that and why other guests have been given appropriate treatment when these people have not.

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