Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I again wish to ask you about your rulings on parliamentary language. Can you advise the House why it is unparliamentary to accuse a member of vilifying asylum seekers but it is not unparliamentary to accuse a member of being soft on drugs?

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

I thank the member for Melbourne. I have ruled on that point and I refer him back to my ruling.