Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the honourable member for Watson from moving the following motion forthwith:

That the House has no further confidence in Madam Speaker, on the grounds:

(a) that, in the discharge of her duties, she has revealed serious partiality in favour of government members;

(b) that she regards herself merely as an instrument of the Liberal Party and not as a custodian of the rights and privileges of elected members of the parliament;

(c) that she constantly fails to interpret correctly the standing orders of the House; and

(d) of gross incompetency in the administration of parliamentary procedure.

Madam Speaker, I note that this is an example of all the noise being on this side of the chamber. The reason these standing orders need to be suspended, Madam Speaker, is in the first instance—

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