Parliamentary Procedure

SPEAKER'S RULING

The SPEAKER (14:01): Yesterday, in question time, the member for Unley said on a point of order that the premier had imputed improper motives to the member for Davenport by calling him, and I quote, 'tricky'. I took on notice the point of order and I asked the Clerk to research whether the term was unparliamentary.

I have now reviewed the Hansard and the Premier did not call the member for Davenport 'tricky'. The Premier said, and I quote: 'that is the tricky sort of question'. Since there can now be no question of the Premier using unparliamentary language of the member for Davenport or imputing improper motives to him, I do not uphold the point of order and I propose to spare the Clerk the onerous task of researching rulings on calling other members 'tricky'.