The petition of a resident of the State of Queensland draws the attention of the House to what can but be seen as having been the highly improper practice adopted by the Brisbane Registry of the Supreme Court of Queensland in respect of the filing of an election petition brought in respect of the 2006 State general election, presented for filing “well within time’ by your petitioner after that election. As matters presently stand it appears that the petition also, like its predecessors in 2001 and 2004 will not now be heard and determined by the Court of Disputed Returns ‘on the merits and in the normal manner’ as it clearly should be, given the nature of the matters which formed the basis for it and the general social importance of them. Your petitioner therefore requests the House to bring this matter on for debate, with a view to determining the facts of this matter and then settling upon a course of action which will result in a proper determination, legally, being made by the authorities competent to do so of the matters raised by that election petition, in the present situation wherein the original remains in the hands of the Queensland Supreme Court Registry.