Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The Manager of Opposition is right. Anyone in the chair can make a ruling, but given the circumstances of what was happening I was loath to make one as I am not the Speaker. Given the debate that was happening, it would normally be the Speaker who was the occupier of the chair. Any person in the chair has the right and the authority to make a ruling. I just think, given the circumstances I find myself in, I was loath to do it. But I did not rule out of order the question that the opposition put before the chair.

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