Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! I am actually applying standing order 271, which is to do with common sense, because I cannot be an arbitrator of what I actually thought was said, but I did not think that the comment was made about coalition seats, which seemed to be the reaction to the member’s attempt to make the personal explanation, and if the basis of the personal explanation was in fact something that was not contained in the answer, then I thought that this was the best way of handling it because it would appear, at this stage, that—unless there is other information that muddies the waters—the point that the member for Wentworth was attempting to have clarified has been clarified.

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