House debates

Thursday, 14 May 2015

Questions without Notice

Budget

2:57 pm

Photo of Mrs Bronwyn BishopMrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

There will be silence! In answer to the question from the member for Chisholm: if someone accuses someone of being a liar, that is totally and utterly unparliamentary. The gerund or the noun can otherwise be used. But you will also notice that in the course of question time yesterday I had cause to ask the Prime Minister to withdraw the use of the word in a different grammatical form and he did. However, what is beyond any doubt is that to accuse anyone in this chamber of being a liar is totally and utterly unparliamentary, and that is why the member for Lilley is no longer in the chamber.

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