Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

Further to that issue, I have a question to you and I refer to page 499 of House of Representatives Practice. It states quite clearly:

A Member is not allowed to use unparliamentary words by the device of putting them in somebody else’s mouth or in the course of a quotation.

I believe that is what the Leader of the House has attempted to do, and I seek leave to table the article from the Courier-Mail of 1 September 2004 in which Senator Brandis is alleged to have called the Prime Minister ‘a lying rodent’ and an article from ABC Online of 31 August 2004 which is titled ‘“Lying rodent” claim exposes children overboard rift’. Mr Speaker—

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