Page 3531 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 18 August 2010
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Mr Hanson: And you immediately stop the clock. This is just bizarre. I asked, after eight minutes, that Mr Barr desist. It has taken less than two minutes for you to make a ruling, and you immediately, of your own initiative, asked for the clocks to be stopped. I had to plead with you about that. In actual fact, Mr Seselja then had to stand up—
MR HARGREAVES: What is the point of order?
Mr Hanson: The point of order is that you are not applying any consistency to this.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Are you moving dissent from my ruling?
MR HARGREAVES: On the point of order, Madam Assistant Speaker?
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves.
MR HARGREAVES: I was not referring to any interchange between Mr Hanson and any other member here. I was merely drawing to your attention, and to his, in fact, that I listened to him in silence. I gave him the respect of him being able to stand in this chamber and make his view known. I was asking for him to extend to me the same courtesy. I do not give a monkey’s whether or not other people are doing different things. I was merely asking for the same courtesy that I extended to Mr Hanson. But, Madam Assistant Speaker, if Mr Hanson does not want to extend to me that courtesy, let him stand up and say so.
Mr Seselja: On the point of order, Madam Assistant Speaker, I seek your ruling on Mr Hanson’s point of order. I have raised points of order, and none of them have actually been addressed. When we have raised points of order about disorderly conduct across the chamber, about interjections across the chamber, you have not devoted one word to actually addressing those points of order. You have simply gone on. So I now seek your ruling on whether it is acceptable for Mr Barr and Mr Rattenbury to interject and not acceptable for Mr Hanson or members of the opposition to interject. I seek your formal ruling.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Seselja, as you well know, it is not acceptable for members to interject. However, as a matter of practicality, some interjections happen. I would have to point out, as someone sitting here, that there is a difference in volume between people. I try to chair as fairly as possible. If you wish to move dissent, you can move dissent. Otherwise, I believe Mr Hargreaves was attempting to make a speech and has the floor.
Mr Seselja: No, I am actually seeking a ruling on a number of points of order that have been raised by members of the opposition in relation to their interjections. We have not had a ruling. In fact, you completely ignored both me and Mr Hanson when we raised them, and then you came back and again brought Mr Hanson to order after that time. So I seek your ruling or your explanation as to why it is that you did not even answer our questions in relation to their constant interjections and the disorderly behaviour of Mr Rattenbury.
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