Page 858 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 20 March 2012
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understand that if you are going to talk about a subject, you want to make sure that you are a bit like Caesar’s wife as well.
Mr Seselja interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: And Mr Seselja mutters away to himself over here, trying to be smart and trying to be funny, and, Mr Speaker, he is not right in either of them.
Mr Hanson: Mr Speaker, on a point of order, I think that you said that you would give the member some latitude. I think that he has strayed a long way from the topic, which is the appointment of Ms Porter to the admin and procedure committee, and I would ask that you bring him to that point.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, thank you. Mr Hargreaves, I did limit Mr Hanson’s latitude, and I would like to do the same to you. I am doing the same to you.
MR HARGREAVES: Yes, sure, thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I have almost got the same amount of time that Mr Hanson had when he was trying to damage me.
I want to rise to support Ms Porter’s appointment. I was not aware, actually, that it needed this chamber to appoint somebody. I thought that the standing orders were such that the membership of the administration and procedure committee comprised the whips. Therefore, a member of this place appointed by his or her particular part of the world as a whip—
Mr Seselja: Ask Simon to withdraw the motion, then.
MR HARGREAVES: Will you just be quiet for a while? You are like an irritating schoolboy, you are.
MR SPEAKER: Members, let us just proceed with the debate.
Mr Seselja interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Mr Seselja.
Mr Seselja interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Mr Seselja.
Mr Seselja interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Right, Mr Seselja, you are warned. I just asked you twice, and you kept interjecting.
Mr Seselja: Mr Speaker—
MR SPEAKER: Stop the clocks, thank you.
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