Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:49): My point arises because over the last two days the Prime Minister has repeatedly stated a false accusation against the Leader of the Opposition— A government member interjecting — The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has the call and will be heard in silence. Ms JULIE BISHOP: And on taking this matter up by means of a point of order I have sought to claim that we find it offensive and disorderly that the Prime Minister continues to claim, falsely, that the opposition has a particular policy when patently we do not. It is a falsity that is perpetuated. That leads to the kind of conduct that we see and the argy-bargy between the two sides, which led to an outcome yesterday which is obviously the reason I am raising it today. I would appreciate some indication of whether or not the Prime Minister can continue to falsely claim that the coalition will cut public funding. We have said time and time again that that is false, and yet it has not been seen as disorderly conduct. The DEPUTY SPEAKER (15:50): The Deputy Leader of the Opposition will resume her seat. Mr Pyne: Madam Deputy Speaker, I raise a point of order on the question— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: There is no point of order. There is no question. Is the Manager of Opposition Business seeking clarification? Mr Pyne: Yes. Madam Deputy Speaker, in the interests of trying to be helpful, I remember that Speaker Halverson in fact used to rule that if a personal explanation had been taken on a matter and the assertion continued to be made, that was disorderly, and he ruled it out of order on numerous occasions. I might ask you to direct your attention to Speaker Halverson— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. Mr Albanese: I am going to make the point, in order to conclude the debate, perhaps, that this is why the Speaker made a ruling that he would not discuss rulings at this point, at the end of question time—so that we do not have these lengthy debates and that if people wanted to raise issues they could raise them with him in his office. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The Leader of the House will resume his seat. I will refer everyone to House of Representatives Practice499 to 502 and to the previous parliament, where there were many personal explanations given by the same member of the opposition, and the claims were still continually made.