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Hansard
- Start of Business
- SUPPLY BILL (No. 2)
- PERSONAL EXPLANATION
- QUESTION
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- QUESTION
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- PAPERS
- ELECTORAL INQUIRY
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- QUESTION
- QUESTION
- QUESTION
- QUESTION
- CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
- CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (CORPORATIONS) BILL
- CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRUSTS) BILL
- CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (INDUSTRIAL MATTERS) BILL
- CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (RAILWAY DISPUTES) BILL
- CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (NATIONALIZATION OF MONOPOLIES) BILL
- GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH : ADDRESS-IN-REPLY
- ADJOURNMENT
- Adjournment
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Wednesday, 10 September 1913
The PRESIDENT
- An honorable senator may use such language as is necessary to elucidate the question of privilege he raises. So far as I have followed Senator Needham, I do not think that he has transgressed the Standing Orders.
Senator NEEDHAM
- I was saying that it ill becomes a man occupying the position of the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth to make such a grave reflection on the Senate. I resent it as a member of the Senate and as a private individual.
Senator Lt Colonel Sir Albert Gould
- When is the speech supposed to hav been made ?
Senator NEEDHAM
- It is in an interview with the press in Sydney.
Senator Lt Colonel Sir Albert Gould
- It is not a statement made in another place.
Senator NEEDHAM
- No; it was made outside Parliament altogether. I want to ask you, sir, whether there is any remedy or procedure which the Senate might adopt to prevent a repetition of such reflections by a man occupying such a position as that occupied by the Prime Minister.
The PRESIDENT
- In reply to the question asked, I have to say that I did see the statement referred to, and, in common, I suppose, with other honorable senators, read it, and observed the language in which it was couched; but I deprecate any reference to it or any notice of it here as calculated to magnify it unduly. I do not think that the Senate should take any action, or attach any importance to a statement which evidently was due merely to an ebullition of petulance. It would ill become the Senate to magnify such a statement or attach any importance to it.
Senator Rae
- It might be well summed up by the question," What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?"
The PRESIDENT
- Order !
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