Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The minister will resume his seat for a second now that he has finished reading that section.

Honourable members interjecting—

That is exactly the point that I was going to make. The level of interjections is ridiculously high. It reflects very poorly on those members. There were no interjections through the speech by the member for Barton. There were none. I think you ought to be able to conduct this debate without a wall of interjections. The members for Lindsay and Cowan, and certainly the member for Lyons, and a number of others, are just interjecting uncontrollably. I will take action—the member for Wakefield, as well. I am going to let the minister now have the call. I will take action, and it will not always be 94(a). Don't think you will be out for an hour and back in time for question time. The minister has the call.

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