Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The bigger question is: how can the person in the chair know? I understand that to be a problem. But that has been the way that this place has dealt with these matters in the past and, unless the standing orders are changed, I cannot see there is any way around the problem that the member for Sturt is highlighting. That was the basis of my original ruling, if he wants it to be described as a ruling, which said when he raised that point halfway through the answer that the question had been in order at the time it had been asked.

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