Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I'm speaking to the point of order. When you called the Leader of the Opposition, you specifically said, 'On a point of order'. It was quite clear to the Leader of the Opposition when he was getting the call that it was on a point of order. It has always been the case with the alternating call that, if you want to move a suspension, you wait until the opposition side, or the non-government benches, gets the call. It's been that way for a long time. In opposition, of course, opposition members want to do it straight away, but that has always been the procedure. It is also the case, as we shouldn't have let go of, that, if someone's rising on a point of order, they get the call for that, but, if it's a suspension, it's treated the same way as the concept of questions alternating side to side.

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