Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, can you confirm that this week you and the President of the Senate were part of a promotional photo shoot for the Earth Hour event at the front of Parliament House? Can you also confirm that your photographer was approached by a blue-uniformed officer to check his identity and his business at the front of the house? Is it the case that the blue-uniformed officer, having checked the identity of the photographer, then inquired as to who you were and what you were doing and needed to radio a confirmation to be satisfied? Given that security personnel do not know who you are, can you review the procedures in place to ensure that a blue-uniformed officer’s time is not wasted on determining the ID of the Speaker the House, the President of the Senate or your assigned photographer?

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

I thank the member for Oxley for his question. I suggest to him security matters are taken very seriously in this place, and I certainly take them seriously.