Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I rise on a separate point of order. I wonder if you could rule on the question of whether the words ‘I’ll whack you in the gob’ are parliamentary—not that they frighten me at all, particularly coming from Senator Sterle, who has no capacity to carry out his threat. But I just wonder, as a matter of parliamentary procedure, whether those words are in fact parliamentary.