Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, on a point of order: if I am correct in understanding your ruling, we are now in the area where—like the Salem witch trials—if someone makes a claim on the other side and there is a reaction we are expected to withdraw it. Can I humbly suggest that we move on with the business of the House. Requiring the member for Dickson to withdraw something when nobody actually knows what it is is ludicrous and reflects poorly on the House itself.

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