Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Mackellar for her point of order. It is almost akin to a dorothy dix point of order. I think one thing I should indicate is that quite a lot of water has flowed under several bridges since Speaker Jenkins Sr was in control of this place. This place was actually down the hill in Old Parliament House. Parliament was not televised, and certainly a lot of habits have changed. I have relied on the precedents and practice of this place that have developed in the number of decades since, including I might add in the last parliament—the most recent we can go back to—the use of newspapers, graphs and maps at the same dispatch box.  I have referred this matter to the Procedure Committee because it seems that people are unclear about the use of articles in this place. In this present parliament, I remember a very creative occupant of the position of the Leader of the Opposition using alcopops, cans of spaghetti and tomato sauce.

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