House debates
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Personal Explanations
2:57 pm
Ken O'Dowd (Flynn, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Mr Speaker, I seek to make a personal explanation on indulgence.
Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Ken O'Dowd (Flynn, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Yesterday the minister said that I had never met him or discussed the Calliope Crossroads. That is wrong. I seek leave to table this photograph taken on 17 April 2011. It might jog his memory.
Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The honourable member has concluded his personal explanation. He will resume his seat and I am required to ask whether leave is granted
2:59 pm
Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Given that the government is putting $150 million into the Calliope Crossroads, a photo with me is not the basis of $150 million. If so, I would be very a popular person to sit next to.
Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Order! The member for Sturt will resume his seat. I did not quite hear the leader—did he grant leave? No? Leave is not granted.
Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Mr Speaker, I have a point of order to you. As the new Speaker, I seek guidance from you as to whether you will be allowing the Leader of the House to simply approach the dispatch box and start bellowing across the chamber at the opposition without properly seeking the call and being given it.
Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I will not tolerate that in future. I think the honourable member who made that point ought to sometimes look in a mirror.