Extra Speaker In Budget Debate
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) CANBERRA, October 2.
The Budget debate in the House of Representatives ended on a sensational note when police and Parliamentary officials forcibly ejected a man from the public galleries for interjecting late last night. As a vote was being taken on a motion to gag the debate, the man stood up and called out: “You are making a mockery of the Government of Australia. Wake up to yourselves. We have Australia. It is our country. We have to live for it and work for it.” Startled Ministers and members looked up towards the gallery to see the man being forcibly ejected. Outside Parliament, police spoke with him for a few moments and then allowed him to go after he had apologised to the Sergeant-at-Arms for his action. Later, outside Parliament he said: “Why did I do it?—Have you ever felt you had to say some-thing-well. that’s what happened to me. I felt that as an Australian [ just had to get up and say what I did.”
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28399, 4 October 1957, Page 8
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