Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! There is no point of order. The member knows, as I indicated to the member for Dickson, that the invite to come to the dispatch box for a point of order is not to engage in debate. I have indicated to the House that I have great worries about question time being used for debate. As yet, the House has not devised a mechanism where the House will investigate this problem, but certainly this illustrates the problem. But people’s frustration should not be vented by coming to the dispatch box in the guise of a point of order and then entering into debate. If what the minister has said needs response, there are other forms of the House which the member for Paterson knows full well he could use at the end of question time.

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