Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition will resume his seat for a second. The Leader of the House was seeking the call, and the Leader of the Opposition was seeking the call at the same time. Clearly, the Leader of the Opposition has a suspension motion. We can play this one of two ways: I can sit the Leader of the Opposition down and hear from the Leader of the House, but it may well be that this wastes a bit of time, because the Leader of the Opposition is entitled to move a motion and the Leader of the House is entitled to move a motion. The Leader of the House had been on his feet, but as Leader of the Opposition had jumped I called him. We can proceed with that—

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