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

The reason all other business of the House should be suspended and nothing else should proceed until this matter is dealt with is what I am speaking to. A suspension of standing orders is essentially saying to the House that no other matter is as important as the matter for which we seek to suspend standing orders. Quite frankly, in this parliament today, until the member for Dobell makes a statement to the House the government is paralysed, distracted and incapable of getting on with the business of governing. The member for Dobell has made the most calamitous defamation action since Oscar Wilde sued the Marquess of Queensberry.

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