Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Resume your seat.

Honourable members interjecting—

Order! Order! The member for Lyons will cease interjecting.

The member for McEwen is warned. Don't interject—trust me—while we're trying to deal with matters before the House. The member for Petrie is entitled to raise a point of order. We are trying to raise the standards, as we began to do last week with the Manager of Opposition Business on 30 May, about undignified personal attacks. So it goes to both sides of the chamber. The thing that the Treasurer said wasn't reflecting on an individual, so I'm going to remind all members that—in their questions and in their answers—the reason why people were removed yesterday was that they were abusing the standing orders to simply get up and make a statement. Out of respect for the member for Petrie, he was able to do that, but it's not a time to just get up and say how you feel or what you think. Okay? That's across the chamber. Members are entitled to raise a point of order, as the member for Hume did. I'm just going to move to the next question.

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