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

Mr President, I wish to raise a point of order in relation to Senator Evans’s answer to Senator Cormann’s primary question. I raise standing order 193(3), which states:

A senator shall not use offensive words against either House of Parliament or of a House of a state or territory parliament, or any member of such House, or against a judicial officer, and all imputations of improper motives and all personal reflections on those Houses, members or officers shall be considered highly disorderly.

Mr President, I would ask you to look carefully at the Hansard transcript, as there was a lot of noise in the chamber at that time, because I believe that the Leader of the Government in the Senate was transgressing standing order 193(3) in his reflections on a duly elected member of another house who was elected by an overwhelming majority.