Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

If the two ministers want me to deal with this, they will remain quiet. I would not wish them to pre-empt what I am about to say, because I may not say it. I have said that I will not be reviewing tapes, but what I am about to say might cause the member for Warringah a little grief. I am confident in making the statements I have made about the member of the Speaker’s panel because, at the time, I was watching. The problem for the member for Warringah is that if it had been just the vision that I had to base a conclusion on I would have left the matter at this point. Regrettably for him—and this is not saying that the Deputy Speaker may not have heard what was said—there was a live mike. He did make one comment audibly that it would probably assist the chamber if he now withdrew.

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