Mrs DRAPER (8:00 PM) —I would like to take this opportunity to reply to the comments made by the member for Grayndler (Mr Albanese) in this House in the last sitting session. It was the most extraordi nary vicious and personal attacks on one the members in this place that I have ever heard, and the person so vehemently attacked was none other than the Prime Minister (Mr Howard), the leader of our country. The reason for the attack is that the member opposite believes because the Prime Minister wore shorts and long white socks during the sixties, did not drive a tie-dyed kombi van, was not out there demonstrating against the Vietnam War or listening to the Doors that somehow this makes him somewhat unable to lead the country. The comments of the members opposite obviously demonstrate that he missed the very essence of what the flower power children of the sixties were trying to convey.

Mr SPEAKER —With regret, I am afraid, the debate must be interrupted.