Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I am going to address this matter. Where there is confusion my intention is to put the question again. We have had this happen before. The Manager of Opposition Business has made his point. I did not restate the entire question. I did when the bells rang, but I did not restate the question.

Mr Snowdon interjecting—

The member for Lingiari is not going to sigh and moan in the chamber. He can do it in his office. Let me warn the member for Lingiari now: if he is going to sigh and moan when I am addressing the House he might as well just go back to his office, because I will cause more of it. I did not state the full question. Manager of Opposition Business, you have made your point, but I did not state the full question. You can spend a lot of time on this, and I appreciate you might want to—

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