Page 2502 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 13 August 2014
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Mr Hanson interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hanson!
DR BOURKE: Now we see the Canberra Liberals supporting Mr Pyne in ripping up his assurance that you can vote Liberal or Labor and you will get exactly the same amount of funding for your school—ripping it up, Madam Deputy Speaker. Mr Hanson yesterday spent his time bizarrely attacking anyone and everyone for believing Mr Pyne’s promises over Gonski. Mr Pyne pre-election said effectively, “A dog ate my homework.” Then, like the Canberra Liberals, we have no policy other than to agree that the Gonski reforms under Labor are pretty good.
Post federal election, Mr Pyne pulls out of the drawer a series of badly thought out plans he had hidden from public scrutiny as an alternative to the Gonski reforms that he had publicly committed to implement. Yesterday at best the Canberra Liberals committed themselves to supporting—
Mr Hanson: No wonder you were sacked, mate.
DR BOURKE: Ouch, that must be hurting, Mr Hanson.
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hanson and Dr Bourke, there should not be a conversation going on across the chamber. Direct your comments through the chair. Mr Hanson, please stop interjecting.
DR BOURKE: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Yesterday at best the Canberra Liberals committed themselves to supporting the federal Liberals’ broken schools funding promise, from the “no surprises, Gonski comb-over” Abbott government. I ask the Canberra Liberals the question Sarah Ferguson asked Joe Hockey on budget night after throwing the Gonski reforms overboard: is it liberating for a politician to decide election promises do not matter—
Mr Hanson: Madam Deputy Speaker, on a point of order.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Hanson, on a point of order.
Mr Hanson: Standing orders 42 requires that members address their comments through you. Dr Bourke just said, “I am going to ask the Canberra Liberals a question,” and then addressed a question to us. I would like to point out that when sitting in that chair earlier today, he warned Mr Smyth for doing exactly the same, for not addressing comments through the chair. I would ask you to provide guidance to Dr Bourke not to commit the same sin that he warned a member of this place for earlier today.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Hanson. I uphold the point of order. Dr Bourke, will you please address all your comments through the chair.
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