Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

No. The Manager of Opposition Business can resume his seat, and everyone can cease interjecting for a second. I am going to hear from the member for Chisholm in a second. I am going to make a very obvious point to the Manager of Opposition Business. Members have the opportunity. They need to go to where they were misrepresented—that is true—and their remarks need to be concise. There has always been a degree of leniency in there. If he wants that to disappear, it will disappear from today. I think he knows what he was talking about with past instances from that side of the House. I am just making a very practical point. The nature of question time is, where a 30-second question is asked and then there is a three-minute response, it is just a statistical fact that most of these will come from the opposition side. I have always been lenient because I want to let people have a say. If you want that to disappear, it can disappear from today.

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