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

Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I refer to your own ruling of this week in which you said that props should be incidental to an answer and to previous speakers’ rulings—rulings of Speaker Andrew and Speaker Jenkins Senior—on numerous occasions that props were out of order or were not to be encouraged. For the bulk of the Prime Minister’s answer he has been waving embarrassingly pathetic photographs around, and I ask you to rule them out of order. Otherwise, props will become the major aspect of answers and questions—which I am sure you do not want to happen, Mr Speaker.

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