Roger Price (Chifley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you so much, Deputy Speaker Scott. I did appreciate the fact that you did take that point of order, and I do not want in any way to dispute your ruling but I think my best course of action would be to consult Chamber Research because I am very familiar with Speaker Causley’s rulings. I saw him in his chambers and we reached an understanding about these matters. In relation to practice and in relation to the advice you have offered the House, I think you are perfectly correct in relation to House practice but that was not the path that Speaker Causley went down.

Speaker Causley pointed out that in the New South Wales parliament there was only one quorum allowed a day and that that might be something that the then opposition might want to avoid. I can also advise you that he declined to accept his attention being drawn to the state of the House after two quorums had been called. I reiterate that I am not disputing with you at all, Mr Deputy Speaker. I think in your quoting of House of Representatives Practice and in your interpretation of House of Representatives practice you are entirely correct. I think the path is open to me to do a bit of research and perhaps take the matter up with the Speaker, if you would not see that as reflection on you. Perhaps we could resolve it by way of discussion with the Speaker.

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