Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Families, Community Services, Indigenous Affairs and the Voluntary Sector) Share this | Hansard source

On a further point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker Thomson: your distinguished predecessor in the chair, Deputy Speaker Burke, ruled that there should be questions involved in the contributions. So I respectfully put it to you that you are not following the precedent quite properly observed by the senior Deputy Speaker when she was in the chair a moment ago.

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