Page 459 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 21 February 2012
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to make unsubstantiated allegations. Those allegations will be tested and I am very confident they will be found to have no substance. But what Ms Gallagher is seeking to do, ahead of that process, is to re-litigate it. How many times is the Assembly going to be asked to deal with this during this process because Ms Gallagher wants to have another debate and another go at the same issue she has already dealt with? This is mud-slinging by a grubby Labor government who have nothing to back it up, and that is why they do it in the chamber.
Mr Hargreaves: A point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, thank you.
MR SESELJA: And who is standing up to defend?
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Seselja! Mr Seselja, sit down, thank you.
MR SESELJA: Mr Hargreaves—
Mr Hanson: The grubbiest man in the Assembly.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Seselja! Stop the clocks, thank you.
Mr Hargreaves: Mr Speaker, I would like to take two points of order, if I may. The first one is that I would like you to ask Mr Hanson to withdraw his comment that I am the grubbiest member of this Assembly.
MR SESELJA: You don’t think it’s true?
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Hargreaves: I will just widen that now, Mr Speaker. I would like you to ask the Leader of the Opposition to withdraw, “Yeah, it’s true though.”
MR SESELJA: No, I didn’t say that.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Let us hear Mr Hargreaves, thank you.
Mr Hargreaves: The other point of order, Mr Speaker, is that you have called the manager of government business to order and to be specific to the motion about why this suspension should go on. I would ask you to ask the Leader of the Opposition to be a bit more relevant too, please.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Mr Hanson, I would ask you to withdraw the comment Mr Hargreaves has asserted you made across the chamber, if you made it.
Mr Hanson: I withdraw.
MR SPEAKER: And Mr Seselja, you can do the same while you are on your feet, thank you.
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