House debates Questions without Notice

Workplace Relations

Wednesday, 9 December 2020 House of Representatives

Tony Smith

Tony Smith Speaker

2:00 pm

I didn't interrupt the answer to warn several people, including the members for Gorton, Ballarat, Cooper, Kingsford Smith and many others. I'm not going to keep warning people. I'm just going to remind members that if they interject, I will act as I did yesterday. We need to do better than we've been doing, in terms of interjections, and I will have no hesitation to do that. I remind them that standing order 94(a) does not require a warning. I've been doing that to be extra tolerant, but it's not resulting in the level of behaviour that we need. So, if members interject, don't be surprised if you're ejected.

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