Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. And, finally, the opposition invites the member for Bendigo to do the right thing and come into the House and apologise for describing the coalition as having ‘all the compassion of the Third Reich’.

Mr Speaker, it is unbelievable that the government would not—

I move:

That the member be no longer heard.

A division having been called and the bells being rung—

I wonder how Michael Danby feels about this. What a disgrace. The member for Bendigo should come into the House and he should apologise for this. What an appalling performance. Mark Dreyfus must think this is a real scream, does he?

Opposition members interjecting—

We’re voting about Gibbons apologising for calling us Nazis.

That’s not what he said.

Mr Pyne interjecting

Order! Can I suggest to the member for Sturt that we just settle down.

Question put.

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