Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will pause. Member for Deakin, you have interjected nonstop during this answer—nonstop! You asked the question; I would have thought if you had asked a question that you would be here for the answer. You're not going to be here for the remainder of this answer; you will leave the chamber under 94(a).

The member for Deakin then left the chamber.

If someone has asked a question, the least they can do is listen to the answer. You mightn't like the answer, or you mightn't agree with the answer. But, if someone has asked the question and is given the courtesy of silence, that same courtesy is going to apply to the Prime Minister and every other minister. The Prime Minister has the call.

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