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Well, page 280 of Practice also requires me to have called for tellers, which I hadn't done yet. But standing order 128 also states:

Members calling for a division must not leave the area of Members' seats—

it doesn't say which seats—

and they must vote with those—

Honourable members interjecting—

The member for Lingiari?

No? It's very hard to tell. I thank the member for Lingiari, and I thank those members opposite for their support of the member for Lingiari. But this goes to a broader point. When I am, as the Speaker, ruling on an issue like this, it is reflecting on the chair when I get smart-alec comments or—

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