Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Committees

Legal and Social Issues Committee

Reporting dates

The PRESIDENT (13:10): I advise the house that I have received a letter from Ms Fiona Patten, chair of the Legal and Social Issues Committee, notifying me that the committee has agreed to extend the reporting date for its self-referred inquiry into extremism in Victoria from 31 May to 4 August 2022.

Mr Davis: On a point of order, President, I can tell the house that I am in receipt of correspondence from the committee. I wrote to them and asked them to broaden their inquiry to include left-wing extremism, including boycott, divestment and sanctions attacks and so forth. That has not been taken up by the committee, and I express my disappointment. The extension of the inquiry without taking on the additional point is entirely unsatisfactory.

The PRESIDENT: There is no point of order, Mr Davis.

Ms Shing: On a point of order, President, could we perhaps get some guidance in relation to the way in which these so-called points of order are being raised repeatedly by Mr Davis, where he knows full well that they are not within the standing orders and persists in making them to get them onto the record?

The PRESIDENT: On the point of order, I know many members in this chamber would remember former President Atkinson and former President Leane had some issues with the points of order, and I repeat that—I have the same. A point of order should be valid, and it should be direct to the point we are talking about or the issue we have raised. So please be careful how you put your points of order from now on.