Parliamentary Procedure

Speaker's Ruling

The SPEAKER (14:41): Yesterday in question time, the member for Morialta asked a question about an SMS service for schools. Many of us, I think, have received an email from a particular commercial provider promoting his particular service, and I had thought that the member for Morialta was promoting that particular service in his question. I am mistaken; he was just promoting the idea, so I apologise to him for my—

Mr Gardner: Imputation.

The SPEAKER: —imputation that it might have been an advertorial.

An honourable member: You could go on the board of the ABC.

The SPEAKER: That's right.