House debates Questions to the Speaker
Chamber Clock
Steve Irons Swan, Liberal Party
3:37 pm
Mr Speaker, I have a question to you. I noticed that when the member for Indi came up to the dispatch box today the clock had started well before she was there and, by the time she got there, there were only 40 seconds left for her question.
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Government Member:
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Steve Irons Swan, Liberal Party
Well, it is part of your new paradigm. Mr Speaker, could you please tell us what the procedure is for that?
Harry Jenkins Speaker
We will have a look at it. I can assure you that nothing is being done in a deliberate fashion. If we talk about that dreadful expression ‘the new paradigm’, it is all our business. If there are still training wheels on, that is regrettable, but I think that everybody in the circumstances is trying to make sure that things are done. I believe the member for Indi managed to get her question well within—if it was only 40 seconds—the 40 seconds.
Sophie Mirabella Indi, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science
Mrs Mirabella interjecting
Teresa Gambaro Brisbane, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship and Settlement
She struggled!
Harry Jenkins Speaker
I doubt whether the member for Indi would struggle on matters like that. I know that she would get it.