David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Griffith. I would remind him that it has been a long established practice by successive occupiers of the chair that an answer should be relevant in some way. When a question asks, for example, whether there are risks to government policy or threats to government policy, the minister does have the option to answer that in the way he or she chooses. In following that long established practice of previous occupiers of the chair I have ruled accordingly.

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