Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) | Hansard source

I appreciate your comment earlier that when interjections are going back and forth you can't be expected to hear every interjection. I also appreciate that decisions on interjections and withdrawals have to be made at the time. Notwithstanding that, I ask whether you could examine the tape and, if you do find that an unparliamentary remark was made, that you could then privately counsel the member concerned. It has often been the case—

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