Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

To the point of order, the standing order on reflections on members is a very important one. But it doesn't extend to explaining what a member in fact did. If the actions are taken to be, 'Well, that's terrible that the person did that,' and a whole lot of conclusions are drawn, that's on the member. The standing order is not there to protect members from the accurate description of what they did.

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