Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! The member for North Sydney will resume his seat. Regrettably, this is an area of practice that is not an exact science. My explanations of last week do not seem to have helped me along the way. But these matters are in the context of what happened last week in the case where, without wanting to embarrass the member involved, the member did not have the call and there was nothing happening but me about to give the call to a questioner. That meant that the threshold was lower. Similarly, these were remarks that were apparently heard by those on my right and some on my left when the member for Dickson was returning to his place. Without asking for the word to be used on and on, I stand by the call that I would ask the member for Dickson to withdraw so that we can proceed.

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