Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Just before people depart, when I ejected the member for Bruce under standing order 94(a), his behaviour on leaving was completely unacceptable. I won't repeat everything he did, other than to say that when members are asked to leave under 94(a) they need to do so immediately, without comment or abuse to anybody. I said at the time I would deal with that at the end of question time, and a number of matters I weighed very quickly on that. I'm not going to wait for the member for Bruce to finish his one hour and come back to the House. The course of action I'm taking, I'm making very clear, is I'm going to name the member for Bruce now, and the matter will be dealt with one way or another by the House, then we can get on with the business of the day. I name the member for Bruce.

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