Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order!

A government member: Press gallery?

Order! Those on the floor of the chamber do not need to encourage the only gallery I cannot see!

I assume that most of the serious people are still there and those who think this is a joke will be down taking interviews of the protestors.

But we have got to a stage where I am actually getting messages about whether I am considering clearing the galleries. What I will tell you is that I am not. But, if there is anybody else in the gallery who wants to get something off their chest, do it now and then leave by themselves, because the rest of the people are here to view proceedings. The only alternative that I do have is to clear the galleries, and I will not be doing that. But I am not endangering those who are employed by the parliament to keep order in the galleries. I hope that some people might think of that and that anybody who can do anything to assist the orderly behaviour of the galleries would do so. The Prime Minister.

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