Page 3522 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 18 August 2010
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Mr Barr: and it is normal practice to rotate between the parties.
Ms Hunter: Outrageous!
MRS DUNNE: If you insist, Madam Assistant Speaker, I will withdraw, but the matter is on the record.
Ms Hunter: Appalling behaviour!
Mr Barr: The Liberal speaker had already spoken; so it was over to this side of the house.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, have you withdrawn?
MRS DUNNE: I withdraw.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you very much.
Mr Rattenbury: I have a further point of order. Mrs Dunne did not withdraw unconditionally. She said that it is now on the public record. She has not withdrawn wholeheartedly.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: I think, Mr Rattenbury, she said, “I withdraw”—
MRS DUNNE: I withdraw.
Mr Rattenbury: This is grubby politics from the opposition impugning the motives of the Assistant Speaker—
Mr Seselja: Point of order, Madam Assistant Speaker.
Mr Hanson: We heard “warn him, warn him!”
Mr Seselja: I have been warned this morning. Mr Barr has been interjecting and not called to order. Mr Rattenbury is getting up and abusing the forms of this house to make political points and I would ask you to call all members to order, not just members of the opposition.
Mr Hanson: You have got to warn him if you are going to be consistent. We are not allowed to yell out “warn him, warn him!” That is what Mr Rattenbury did, and you warned someone. Good enough for him, not good enough for us. It is inconsistent.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Members, I have made my ruling. I believe it is time to desist from this interruption. Mrs Dunne, you have the floor for a substantive debate.
Mr Seselja: Sorry, Madam Assistant Speaker—
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