Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

My first proviso is that I am not encouraging this sort of questioning of things that happen during question time. But, as it happened only a few moments ago and I did offer him the chance to make a point of order, I will tell the member for Aston that if he goes off and does his homework and reads the House of Representatives Practice he will see that that was well within what has happened in the past. I think that I could have anticipated what you were actually going to say. I was willing to let the Leader of the House finish and then give you the opportunity to raise your point of order at that point in time. It was not a matter of denying you the right to have your point of order; it is a debate about what ‘immediate’ actually means. If you look at the precedents that are covered by the House of Representatives Practice you will see that that has happened in the past.

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