House debates Questions without Notice

Budget

Thursday, 28 May 2009 House of Representatives

Harry Jenkins

Harry Jenkins Speaker

2:03 pm

Order! The use of these rhetorical questions highlights a need for the House to consider the amount of debate that is allowed in the answers to questions. I remind honourable members that a lot of the angst that is expressed relates to the fact that the standing orders have several restrictions on questions and those restrictions do not apply to answers.

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