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

Mr Speaker, the member for Mackellar raised a point of order which you have quite correctly ruled on from your opinion of the standing orders. You did, however, in doing so, say that the standing orders said that props were entitled to be used incidentally to the question. But I would put it to you, with due respect, that the Prime Minister is not using these props incidentally; they form the major part of his answer to the question, which has now been going for almost eight minutes, and if you expect the House to maintain its decorum—

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