House debates

Tuesday, 24 October 2017

Questions without Notice

Australian Federal Police

2:51 pm

Photo of Mr Tony BurkeMr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Practice at 516 and 517 specifically refers to two points. Firstly, a comment does not need to be levelled against an individual member; it can be levelled generally to be offensive. Secondly, language of 'a nature likely to create disorder' is included, as well as words that are generally considered unparliamentary. Specifically, criminal offences such as sedition, treason, support for corruption and deliberate dishonesty are referred to as being unparliamentary terms. Anything that associates members of parliament with in some way approving of paedophiles—

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