Senate debates

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

9:39 am

Photo of Scott RyanScott Ryan (President) | Hansard source

My ruling over the last 48 hours, which I have discussed with the Clerk, was that where reflections are specific in nature and, I might say, directly identifiable to an individual, they are out of order; where they are made collectively in political debate, they are not necessarily out of order. I will encourage senators to be careful with their language, but I do not believe that crossed the line, given my rulings from the last 48 hours.

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