Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have a question for you, Deputy Speaker Burke. Although this building is a unique workplace—currently with a slightly strained atmosphere—it is still a workplace where every employee is entitled to quiet enjoyment and freedom from harassment and daily seeing offensive material. But it is also a workplace that is the crucible for the freedom of political communication in this nation. There are probably not many workplaces in Australia that would have fewer swinging voters walking the halls except for Labor and Liberal Party headquarters. Therefore, I ask the Speaker, through you, if the many belittling and offensive posters shouting out from the windows of MPs offices from both sides of the chamber are 'reasonably appropriate and adapted to serve a legitimate end the fulfilment of which is compatible with the maintenance of the constitutionally prescribed system of representative and responsible government'.

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

I will pass the question on to the Speaker.