Ian Causley (Page, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

For the benefit of the member for North Sydney, I am at present the acting Speaker. The ruling I made was a ruling regarding the minister for industry attending or not attending this division. I did it for a reason and a purpose. Previously, we have had a series of incidents when not one member but many members have forced their way into a division because the doors have been kept open for longer than they should have been. I clearly called for the doors to be closed. They should be closed rapidly. That instruction to those who work in this place should be actively carried out. There was a slowness in the closing of the doors on the part of the person who closed them. The minister for industry, no doubt, heard what I was saying and that is why he left. He knew that the doors had been kept open for longer after the call had been made. That is why I acted in the way that I did.

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