Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I refer to your remarks before about the length of answers. The minister has now been speaking for over four minutes. There has been no answer to a dorothy dixer today that has been less than four minutes. The Deputy Prime Minister in previous incarnations suggested that the Procedures Committee require those questions to be less than four minutes. How can you expect this side of the House to maintain its decorum if ministers continue to do this kind—

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