Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order on your ruling. For the 25 years I have been in this place, every opposition—Liberal or Labor—has been permitted to ask and have answered a question that is preceded by the expression or the accusation that a minister has misled the House. It has only been ruled out of order when members have used words like ‘deliberation’ or have gone further and used a word like ‘lie’. Accountability in this place will be impossible if a question like that is not permitted.

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