Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I refer you to House of Representatives Practice, 5th edition, page 48, where it refers to the 1976 report of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, which stated:

It is through ministers that the whole of the administration—departments, statutory bodies and agencies of one kind and another—is responsible to the Parliament …

I draw your attention to the fact that this is a question about supplying assistance and facilities to aged people with dementia. It is wrong for the minister to raise issues either of the past or, more particularly, to read a diatribe of expenditure that is not materialised. Give the old people a go!

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