Page 1798 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 8 June 2022
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MADAM SPEAKER: Members, enough!
Mr Hanson: Madam Speaker, Mr Gentleman made a vitriolic speech, calling us a rabble. You are letting that go through to the keeper—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson—
Mr Hanson: but when that invokes a response—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson—
Mr Hanson: you are admonishing us.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, sit down.
Mr Hanson: Is “rabble” parliamentary, Madam Speaker?
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, sit down.
Mr Hanson: I ask for your guidance: is “rabble” parliamentary?
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, you are warned. I asked you to sit down and you stayed on your feet. There have been warnings around the level of interjections. If you want to make a comment then you should stand and speak under a substantive motion, please, and not interject.
Ms Lee: On a point of order, Madam Speaker: Minister Gentleman just called us a “rabble”. I ask for your guidance as to whether that is unparliamentary.
MADAM SPEAKER: There have been a number of words uttered across the chamber. I am going to let it stand, but I ask again for people to have regard and respect on both sides. I am going to let it stand, but I would ask Mr Gentleman to be careful in his language. I ask all members to be careful in their language.
Mr Hanson: Madam Speaker, when Ms Lee interjected and Mr Barr raised a point of order, you asked that she withdraw. Will you apply the same standard to Mr Gentleman?
MADAM SPEAKER: I will apply a fair standard across the chamber.
Mr Rattenbury: On the point of order, Madam Speaker, I think Mr Hanson is seeking to draw a false equivalence. It is about the use of the words. I think the word “rabble” is pretty regularly used in this place. It is quite different to the term that Ms Lee was asked to withdraw.
Ms Lee: Madam Speaker, can I seek your guidance? The comment that I made was literally in jest to my colleagues here. Are you going to be saying to every single member in this place that they cannot even have any sidebar conversations lest
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