Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

On the second point, the Leader of the Opposition is right. On the first he's wrong, and I'll explain why. The term 'deliberately mislead' would—

Mr Hill interjecting—

The member for Bruce can leave under 94(a). I'm not going to be continually interrupted.

The member for Bruce then left the chamber.

The words 'deliberately mislead' can't be made other than by a substantive motion, but the word 'lie' cannot be used. There's a long history of that. That needs to be withdrawn and—

An opposition member interjecting—

Well, I'm not going to have members on either side argue with black-and-white history. There was a former member of the Gillard government who was asked by the Speaker to withdraw that term, and certainly withdrew that term and came up with other terms. There are other terms, but I'm not going to give you an education on the terms you can use, okay? Seriously, I'm not conducting some sort of class. The member for Denison needs to rephrase the question or withdraw those words.

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