Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I seek leave to table a document—

Honourable Members:

Honourable members interjecting—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Could we have some order! The member for Kooyong, could you please start again.

Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I seek leave to table a document. During question time, the Prime Minister said she rejected any suggestion that the ASIO budget had been cut—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member for Kooyong will resume his seat. The Leader of the House?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

No.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the member for Kooyong have other issues he wishes to raise? The document has already been—

Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Manager of Government Business does not know which document I am referring to. I am referring to the ASIO submission—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Kooyong will resume his seat. Leave has not been granted. The member for Dickson was seeking to make a personal explanation.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, if I may respectfully submit to you: it is very difficult for the government to give or deny leave until the member has had a chance to state exactly what the document is. With respect, he should have been allowed to state what the document is and then the Leader of the House would have the opportunity to say whether leave was given or not.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition will resume his seat. The Leader of the House will resume his seat. The member for Dickson has the call.

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. Whether a document is tabled or not is within the decision of the government. The government has not granted leave.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I am reluctant to detain the House on this matter—

Government members interjecting—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order!

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

but there is more than one document in the world and there may well be more than one document that the member for Kooyong has sought to table. I respectfully put it to you, Madam Speaker, that it is simply contrary to all traditions in this House for leave to be denied before the document is identified. The member for Kooyong should be given the opportunity to identify the document that he wished to have tabled and then the government has the chance to give or to deny leave.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition will resume his seat.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. If it helps the House, the member identified the document during question time. And what is absolutely certain is that when this mob get on a track they do not go off it!

Opposition members interjecting—

He identified it—

Ms O'Dwyer interjecting—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member for Higgins will leave the chamber under 94(a).

The member for Higgins then left the chamber.

I have given every indication that this behaviour is unacceptable! The member for Kooyong: are there any other documents you are seeking to table?

Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, there are, Madam Speaker. I would like to table the ASIO submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, document No. 11 2011-12, which states at page 9 that revenue from the government—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

No! Order! Member for Kooyong: are there any other documents besides this one?

Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

That is the document I would like to table.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Kooyong will resume his seat. I asked if there were further documents.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

And it is the same one, and the answer is 'no'!

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member for Dickson has the call.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You could have thought of a new one!

A government member: It's an embarrassment—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The embarrassment today is on all sides! The complete lack of any decorum shown during this question time again heightens the public's concern about how this parliament is progressing. The member for Dickson has the call.