Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

Certainly, Mr Speaker. The advice obtained from the Clerk of the Senate says, in very brief summary, that the 1955 ruling on which you have relied has not been relied on in the Senate for at least 25 years and, secondly, that in the view of the Clerk of the Senate it does not add any level of clarity to the decision which must be made by the chair. Mr Speaker, it would seem a very odd result indeed to me that we would rely in the House on a ‘Senate reasoned interpretation’, as it is referred to by the Clerk, for practice down here when that same reasoned interpretation—

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