Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Warringah will resume his seat. It is true that I have emphasised the circumstances of the chamber. I warned the Deputy Leader of the Opposition earlier in the piece. On the basis of the circumstances of proceedings that have followed that, I have ignored a number of times things that have happened. On the basis that I had asked her to resume her seat and on the basis of previous matters that I had taken into consideration, I thought that it was a fair cop. To get back to the point of order that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition was making before I sent her on her way, in her points of order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has only been emphasising one point of the question. The minister has been relevant to the question, as set by the precedents of this place.

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