Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Further to the issue of parliamentary secretaries and assistant ministers, could you please inform us of the distinction between the role of a parliamentary secretary and the role of an assistant minister. Could you tell us: if those responsibilities are different, why can’t we ask questions of a person acting in their capacity of assistant minister?

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