Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! The member for North Sydney finally got the call after those behind him allowed it. The member for North Sydney has raised with me a point of order. There is no point of order. He can extract the element of the question where he wants the direct answer, but he has to remember that the question included other matters. The member for North Sydney will know that under a strict reading of the standing orders, much of his question was out of order as it contained argument. I think that he understands that during my period in the chair I have allowed those types of questions because of what I believe to be an imbalance in the standing orders, but he also has to recognise that once I allow that matter to be in the question it can be responded to.

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