Carmen Lawrence (Fremantle, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I refer again to your failure to recognise Mr Edward McMillan-Scott, the Vice-President of the European Parliament, and Mr David Kilgour, a long-serving and recently retired Canadian MP and former minister. I ask whether you are aware that, a little later yesterday, the Senate President recognised Mr McMillan-Scott and gave him the courtesy that we might have expected in this House. I ask whether it was the purpose of their visit, which was to draw attention to the investigation of allegations of organs being harvested from Falun Gong practitioners in China, which was the reason for your decision?

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I will respond directly to the member for Fremantle by saying that, to both parts of her question, the answer is no.