Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services, Housing, Youth and Women) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I have question to you. It relates to comments made by the member for Indi yesterday when she was mocking the member for Grayndler by saying that he pronounced ‘environment’ as ‘envinement’, and that is recorded in Hansard yesterday, and also to the foreign affairs minister as he was playing bubble breaker during the last debate. He corrected the member for Grayndler, saying that the expression was ‘should have’, not ‘should of’. Aside from these comments being both discourteous and pompous, I wonder whether you would consider counselling these members of parliament. When they behave in this way they are mocking not the member for Grayndler, who is pretty big and tough and can take care of himself, but every other Australian who speaks with an ordinary Australian accent.

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