Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! I'm going to ask the House to be silent. The member for Warringah was raising a point about conduct within the House. I warned those in the gallery early in question time today that they were not to participate and were not to interject during question time. As a result of their behaviour, they have left the chamber, but I want to say this going forward: there will be no interjections from the gallery. There will be no movement noise from the gallery, out of respect for this parliament but also the other Australians that are in the gallery. For the rest of this week and for the rest of the time that I'm Speaker, that will not happen again. The member has been asked to withdraw a reflection. I'm going to ask her to do that.

An honourable member interjecting—

The Manager of Opposition Business took offence.

An honourable member interjecting—

Yes. Resume your seat. I want to hear from the Leader of the House. I couldn't hear what the member was saying, but, if someone has taken offence, my policy is for someone to withdraw, on both sides of the chamber.

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