Zali Steggall (Warringah, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I would note that it is the practice of the Speaker, in respect of the position of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, to always give them the call preferential to anyone else in the chamber because they are at the table. If the Leader of the Opposition is going to abandon the practice of respecting that he has given the call on an assumption of a point of order, then I would respectfully submit that there can no longer be a precedence of those at the table over other members of the House in seeking the call, because, if not, it is a preferential treatment. The application of the standing orders should be equal to all in this place. There shouldn't be exceptions for the Leader of the Opposition.

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