De-Anne Kelly (Dawson, National Party, Parliamentary Secretary Trade) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, could you answer a question for me, please? Is it appropriate, when members are seeking to clarify a misrepresentation against them, for others in the House to claim that it is stupidity? It is intimidation. I would like your advice as to whether people can raise in this House a matter that they see as misrepresentation without being intimidated.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The parliamentary secretary raises a valid point. I believe it would be obvious to all members that the chair intervened in order to try to allow the member for Hughes to be heard. I would ask all members to show more respect for other occupants in this chamber when they seek to make a personal explanation.