Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Members on both sides will cease interjecting. I wish to hear the Leader of the House. I also wish to hear the Leader of the Opposition's motion. Members will cease interjecting. I take the point from the Leader of the House. I have had cause to reflect on this a number of times over recent months. I will certainly be mindful of the length of the motion but also point out there have been lengthy motions moved and accepted in the past from members who have occupied various positions in different parliaments. So I am cognisant of it but, without going directly to those precedents, I will hear the Leader of the Opposition. I remind him that the motion should be to the point and not depart from the practice that he has been used to as Leader of the Opposition in the period that I have been Speaker.

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