Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I hear the murmurs of ‘serious matter’. It was not a serious matter when the Prime Minister was on his feet. The question was asked. Those on my left talked all the way through it. The member for O’Connor knows that the point he has raised is not something that I can deal with. It is something that I will not respond to. Many people—and the member for O’Connor is amongst those that have been here longest—would look through the way in which these matters have been handled by now successive governments.

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