Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you for your guidance, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I think I was, quite correctly, pointing out the circumstances of this dissent motion. The member for North Sydney quite rightly is concerned by the ruling that you have given that a motion that a member be no longer heard cannot be moved against the same person speaking at a particular point in time. The dissent motion is that that ruling was incorrect—in fact, a motion that a member be no longer heard can be moved at any time. The precedent for that is very clear. I have been in this parliament since 1993, and the member for Warringah has been here since 1994. I remember times when such motions that a member be no longer heard were taken by the then opposition against the member for Warringah when he was the Minister for Employment Services.

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