Tuesday, May 19, 2009

When a Speaker is under attack

Another clip from a Commonwealth Parliament, this time from Australia in 1995. John Howard was moving a motion of censure against the-then Prime Minister Paul Keating, but look at the exchanges involving the-then Speaker Stephen Martin in the first 1:20 and again from about 5:15 onwards:
It's of a level that not even our House of Commons reached on Monday.

1 comment:

Percy Griffiths said...

Thought you would be interested in my blog: http://victoriangentleman.blogspot.com/2009/05/parliament-hasnt-changed-in-400-years.html

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