Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I have a question for you following question time today. I preface it by saying that I understand that it is very difficult to observe everything going on in the chamber during question time, and I appreciate that more than most. But is it appropriate for members of the government to be inviting people to a brawl, to come on over to the other side of the chamber and have a bit of a biffo during the exchange? I think it is stretching the behaviour and the standards a bit far when we actually have members calling people over to step outside. The only other time I have actually seen it occur—and the member for Bass might want to run back to his seat—was with the member for O'Connor in a previous parliament, where he was attempting to—

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