Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I sure do thank the shadow minister for small business for his question. It must be a blessed relief, because it is 546 days since he last asked me a question. If he had missed out today—and I am glad that the member for O’Connor has agreed, as chair of tactics, that he should finally get a question—it would have been 614 days until 2 February. The clock was ticking. It would have been 53,136,000 seconds since he last asked a question, so he has just slipped in, in the nick of time.

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