Alan Ferguson (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

It was very disorderly, but the interjection was made and, to the best of my knowledge, it has been the convention of this place that when an interjection is made the person on his feet may respond to it. As I understand it, Senator Marshall was referring to a first speech in his interjection and Senator Colbeck was responding apropos that comment about a first speech.