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

Mr Speaker, I rise on two points of order with regard to the matter which the Leader of the House has raised. Firstly, all House of Representatives practice and the standing orders make it clear that you are not entitled to say someone deliberately misled, but people regularly say in this House that people have misled the House and no-one has ever been required to withdraw it. It would be a dangerous precedent if you were to say so. Secondly, given the exchange between the Prime Minister and the member for Perth, can I draw your attention to page 164 of House of Representatives Practice, which says the Speaker:

… should give the same reprimand for the same offence whether the Member is of the Government or the Opposition.

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