Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I thank you, Mr Speaker, and I certainly will be. The member for North Sydney could take another lesson in work ethics, because if he had done his homework he would know that the Prime Minister is paired with the Leader of the Opposition. It will not be necessary for her to attend the division that will be coming before us shortly. I go back to the member for Gippsland—a very fine member. I will not go through the whole scenario again, but I think we have found ourselves at the Selection Committee determining whether this very fine motion from the member for Gippsland should be debated and voted upon in this place. The member for Gippsland felt so strongly about this motion on wild dogs that he went to the members for Leichhardt, Barker and Berowra and said, 'Please, I need this to be voted upon.' I do not really understand it—it is quite a non-objectionable motion. Wild dogs are a real problem in regional Australia; I have the same problem in my electorate—

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