Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I'm going to make the point quite early on that, if members read the Practice, of course they're entitled to draw attention to the state of House, but there are precedents where Speakers have said a reasonable period of time should elapse before the calling. I'm just flagging that now. While you're waiting for the bells to ring, there's some quite interesting reading there in the Practice, which I'm sure is in your drawer.

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